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Literally the closest man to Khrushchev coast to coast will be Oleg Troyanovsky, 38, his personal interpreter and probably the best Russian-English linguist in the world. Troyanovsky, son of ex-Czarist Officer Alexander Troyanovsky, who was the U.S.S.R.'s first Ambassador to Washington (1934-38), attended the Quakers' Sidwell Friends School in Washington ("Blessed with that charm, the certainty to please," said the student quarterly), put in his freshman year at Swarthmore before returning to Moscow University. Troyanovsky first appeared in the Kremlin big picture as Stalin's interpreter in the 1947 conference with U.S. General...
When she eloped at 20 with thin-lipped Oleg Cassini, a dress designer and erstwhile Russian count, her beloved father threatened to sue her for $50,000. Charge: breach of contract with the family corporation formed to control her earnings. (Legally of age by marriage, she had signed a new contract with 20th Century-Fox.) Though eventually settled with a tearful reconciliation, the threatened suit was a severe shock, soon followed by the unexpected divorce of her parents after 25 years of marriage...
...figure in the movies after displaying it in Manhattan in a record-breaking number of stills, Jayne Mansfield described her year in New York as "an intellectual phase I went through." Said Jayne: "I wore black, black, black up to my ears and went out with Oleg Cassini. You go out with the right people, everything's black, even the cars...
...those days sister Grace was showing a distinct preference for such indoor sports as Dress Designer Oleg Cassini and Actor Jean-Pierre Aumont. Last fortnight another young foreigner came to call on Grace at the Kelly mansion in Philadelphia. "I was under the impression he was going to stay just a couple of hours," said Grace's father, Millionaire John B. ("Jack") Kelly. "But he stayed and stayed and stayed." In the end the visitor formally asked Jack for his daughter's hand in marriage. Thus, three weeks after his arrival in the U.S., Prince Rainier...
...Oleg, say the Harvard psychologists, is essentially one of the stereotypes of czarist days: the ambitious but passive dreamer. The Soviet upper class is acquiring the same sheltered, privileged life as the czarist nobility. If present trends continue, the ranks of the Red aristocracy will be filled with more and more green-tinged Golden Youths like Oleg...