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...velvet," says Mrs. Heinz, "we've assured ourselves that it will age well; as the velvet gets shabby, it will look better." Intimacy & Nice Things. Another East Side co-op (i Sutton Place South) in which Jansen has had a hand belongs to Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, an heir to the Phipps steel money, and his wife Lucy ("C.Z."). Boston-born "C.Z." was a Ziegfeld girl and artist's model for Diego Rivera before she settled down as one of New York's more active society matrons. The Guests have homes in Palm Beach and Roslyn...
...beneath the world's third highest mountain, 28,216-ft. Kanchenjunga, Sikkim's "protecting deity of the snowy ranges." The country has no newspapers and permits no lawyers to practice because the government thinks that lawyers are far more trouble than they are worth. Sikkim's heir apparent, Maharaj Kumar Palden Thondup Namgyal, 38, is engaged to 21-year-old U.S. Socialite Hope Cooke, but he will not marry her until 1963 because all 1962 has been judged as astrologically unfortunate...
...Their charges of American imperialism seem, to the peasant, entirely substantiated by the presence of American military personnel in all parts of the country. And in history of American military aid to the French in the Indo-Chinese war prompts many of the Vietnamese to consider America as heir of French colonialism and the unpopular Pres. Diem as its puppet emperor...
Mary found her next husband in a German spa. He was stiff-necked Count Alfred von Waldersee, whose one attraction for Mary was his friendship with Prince Wilhelm, heir to the German throne. In due course, Mary met Wilhelm. She was a svelte 42, he only 21. Noting that his withered left arm made him feel insecure, she put him at ease with a few soulful chats. She earned his gratitude by finding him a submissive little wife, who later bore him eight children. Husband in tow, Mary moved into an elegant house in Berlin overlooking the River Spree. Wilhelm...
Piel first raises the serious matter of general scientific ignorance. People have learned to accept science as a source of endless improvement, material comfort, and abundance, yet most the exact workings of science are mysterious. "Ironically, science itself seems to have fallen heir to much of what remains of the frightened awe formerly accorded to the outer darkness...