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...which a 10-ft.-square cabin and three meals a day cost only $1.50 to $1.80. For Lone-Star Staters, Southern France made frantic preparations for La Semaine du Texas, an eight-day week, when imported Neiman-Marcus models in ten-gallon hats will roam the ranges of the Riviera...
...Isabel Townsend Pell. 51, New York socialite and a heroine of the French underground during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After brief flings at real estate, the stage and auto racing, she joined the Maquis in 1940 at her summer home, in Auribeau on the Riviera. Known as "Fredericka" and la fille å la mėche blonde (because of a lock of white hair on her forehead), she served the Resistance movement for four years, once rescued 16 U.S. paratroopers stranded behind enemy lines...
...Rita. Prince and Cucuface set off on a cheerful pilgrim's progress from Paris to the Riviera. Their delicate palates and foxy noses are proof against phony vintage wines; their false humility endears them to the wealthy, and their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with...
Success has brought Lola more than money. On the Riviera, as she tells it, Winston Churchill hugged her and said: "Of all the artists I have ever seen sing and dance, I think you are the best." Says Lola: "Knowing his high place in the world of politics, I count his congratulations among my greatest rewards." Mexicans admire Lola, too-in their own way. Her dressing room at the Capri is flooded with discreetly written requests for dates from Mexico's greatest names. Sample, from a very prominent politico: "My car, with a fur coat inside, will be waiting...
With the help of Riviera sunshine and a heart specialist, the ailing, 75-year-old Ago Khan felt well enough to leave his villa in Cannes, go for a drive with the Begum, and make plans for an early visit...