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...uphill fight, but he knows a few things about Missouri politics, having twice helped run successful campaigns for his father, Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's replacement at State will be U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, who held the protocol post for four years before going to Madrid...
...beauties every bit as dazzling as any courtesan painted by Watteau or Fragonard. Their names tumbled out of Burke 's Peerage, the Almanack de Gotha and the Social Register. From London, there was the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, Lady Astor, and the young dandy Lord Lichfield; from Madrid, Count and Countess de Romanones-Quintanilla, and from Rome, Donna Allegra Caracciolo. Paris sent Princess Peggy d'Arenberg and Dubonnet-Maker André Dubonnet; from Manhattan flew Marylou Whitney (with a sequined bee on her bonnet), along with Newport's Jimmy and Candy Van Alen, Gardiner...
Back from Nassau, Obolensky is now off to Paris and Rome to arrange parties for Alexander's president, Alexander Farkas; then he must fly down to Madrid to help an old pal, Angier Biddle Duke, the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, give a benefit ball for the Cancer Society. Wherever he goes, there will be entirely too many Beautiful People to round up to leave Serge much time for play. Unless what he does for a living is play enough...
...quite in the class of that other royal karate expert, Greece's black-belted King Constantine, Spain's Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón is good enough to have earned a brown belt, first class, and proud enough of it to invite Madrid photographers to take a look. The occasion was Juan Carlos' 30th birthday, and he celebrated by cleaving a board with the edge of his hand. There was something else to celebrate too. The Prince is now, as far as age is concerned, eligible to become King, assuming that...
...that was not all-though it has taken over a century and a half to discover the second Goya in the Goya. Last June, Madrid's Prado Museum decided to have The Family of Charles IV cleaned and rebacked with a fresh canvas. When the first layer of grime was removed the Prado's assistant director, Xavier de Salas, made a startling discovery. In the upper left-hand corner, a dark picture hanging on the palace wall turned out to depict a nude man and two seminude women. The man is caressing one woman's thighs...