People, Aug. 19, 1957

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

Covering the Mediterranean waterfront for the Hearst press, Elsa Maxwell tersely laid the scene of a Stavros Niarchos wingding—"The Creole, at anchor in the port of Villefranche, lay low in the water like a black panther of the sea"—pounded out the hard news with dispatch—"It was too funny for words. Mrs. Guinness took off her shoes. The Duchess did her conception of the calypso. Harold Vanderbilt begged me to dance with him. I refused only because, though I love Harold, I cannot dance"—but lost,...

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