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...maid at Eliot House entered the room cautiously. She had begun straightening an immense pile of letters and scraps when she spotted a middle-aged man, upcuded and apparently practicing yoga...
...When the movie princess escapes, on impulse, from dull routine and is found, drunk on a sedative, by Reporter Gregory Peck on a bench in a Roman park, Audrey makes her helplessness absolutely winning by her quiet assumption that Peck will tend to her needs just as her personal maid might. "I've never been alone with a man before," she says severely a bit later in Peck's apartment, "even with my dress on," and her trusting innocence becomes a sure guarantee of safety. Audrey Hepburn's princess seems never to forget her exalted station, even...
...17th century, was too much for the Aga Khan, who had come to Aix-les-Bains for a peaceful fortnight. He left town in a huff (actually, in a green Rolls Royce with red leather upholstery) and headed for the 20th century in Lausanne. Switzerland, followed by his chauffeur, maid and luggage in a second car. "The Aga Khan," it was explained, "receives and sends many letters and needs to make frequent phone calls abroad...
...Another once described him thus: "Ulbricht is the kind of man who wants to enter a house which is guarded by a policeman at the front door, then decides it is easier to go in by the back door. He first begs a slice of bread, then seduces the maid, cleans out the refrigerator, works his way into the master bedroom, steals the owner's clothes, and then strides through the house to the front door and tells the policeman to go away...
After triumphantly brushing past a maid who had orders to keep her out, Barbara ("Bobo") Rockefeller, estranged wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, consolidated her beachhead in his 15-room Park Avenue apartment by winning permission to come & go as she pleased. Winthrop was in Little Rock. Ark., ostensibly to go into business but more likely to qualify himself for a divorce after three months' residence. Scoffed Bobo: "He's not the barefoot-boy type. He has not suddenly fallen in love with the heartland of America." For a self-proclaimed old-fashioned girl, twice-married Bobo (her first...