Word: pignatelli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the prosecutor failed to report $12,000 of his income on his tax returns. Wellington Koo Jr., 21-year-old son of the Chinese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was held (briefly) in Mechanicsburg, Pa., as a suspected Jap spy. Prince and Princess Guido Pignatelli's 32-room mansion near Charleston was destroyed by fire. Estimated damage: $400,000. She is the former Henrietta Hartford, A. & P. heiress. Shrewd, brilliantly blonde Cinemactress Constance Bennett declared that the boy she had legally adopted a decade ago was actually her own child by the late Millionaire...
...Four Square Gospel. It prohibits a divorced minister from remarrying. ∙ ∙ Oldtime Cinemactress Constance Binney, 40, revealed she had been secretly married for nearly a month to a 22-year-old flight lieutenant in the R.A.F., Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. ∙ ∙ Philadelphia society's former Princess Ruth Pignatelli, fighting for a divorce from her second husband, Broker James C. Brazelle, denied she bought a gentleman jockey friend a $250 set of store teeth. Husband Brazelle asked "reasonable support and maintenance." ∙ ∙ Princess Olga Troubetzskoi of the Philadelphia Social Register pleaded guilty to vagrancy when put on trial...
Spanish Prince Ludovico Pignatelli filed an application in Manhattan Supreme Court asking that Italian Prince Guido Pignatelli and his precariously married* wife, Henrietta Hartford, $200,000,000 A. & P. store heiress, be ordered to drop the titles from their names. Complained Ludovico: "Guido has assumed the designation [Prince Pignatelli] so he might pirate the reputation and prominence of the petitioner. ... By reason thereof he . . . found the doors of New York's best society, which ordinarily would have been barred to him, suddenly open...
That was all. Pius XII and Mr. Taylor talked things over, in English, for half an hour. Then the Ambassador departed, began a lengthy round of ceremonial calls in Rome. First of 24 resident Cardinals on Mr. Taylor's list was Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Dean of the Sacred College. Spry at 88, this Prince of the Church returned the visit promptly, arrived at Mr. Taylor's hotel (the Excelsior) flanked by two grooms, who went up in the elevator with him bearing two big lighted candles...