Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...thrives at his profession, which embraces theater sets, commercial art, window displays, religious murals, duplications of old paintings, book illustration and, lately, elevator decorating. Last week Gugel was dabbing away at an elevator set up on the terrace of his studio overlooking the Roman Forum. A well-heeled countess named Anna Maria Cicogna takes Gugel's art seriously enough to have offered him $1,600 to decorate the elevator for a new pink marble palace she is building in Venice...
Seasons for a Countess. A push-button affair designed to carry two people up to the countess' boudoir, the elevator did not give Gugel much elbow room. He fitted it with a continuous mural done in deep perspective, to make the contraption look "as light and airy as possible." For subject matter he took the four seasons. "This is a very commonplace idea," he wrote the palace architect, "but I think you'll find the pictures a bit unusual...
Born. To George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, 27, music critic, nephew of King George VI, and the Countess of Harewood (nee Stein), 23, Austrian-born pianist: their first child, a son; in London. Name: undecided. Title: Viscount Lascelles. Weight: 7 lbs. 4 oz. Position in line of succession to the British throne: 13th...
...sadistic quacks in the Ravensburg Experimental Station. Eight injections of poison in her right eye blinded it. Other injections destroyed the hearing nerve in one ear. Then the Nazis injected typhus into her blood to make serum. In the typhus block they did not bother to feed prisoners. The countess' last memory of Ravensburg was of feebly trying to fend off a ravenous woman prisoner turned cannibal. Two days later Yvonne awoke in Sweden. The Swedish Red Cross, accompanying Allied liberation troops, had found her among a pile of corpses...
...camp at Flossenburg. The La Rochefoucauld château in Normandy had been bombed and burned. France had awarded Yvonne the Croix de Guerre with three palms and star for her war work. From England came the King's Medal for her work with British Intelligence. But the countess was hard up. Although she held a medical degree from the University of Paris, she could not practice because of her concentration-camp injuries...