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[Manuel]

nope
sorry Ted

[Manuel]

person

1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester
7. Chicken Hash
8. Frequently upset the stepkids (both sets); step daughter wrote "tell all" book
9. Rue Boissy
10. Kept the Bentley
11. "The Sound of Music"

[Manuel]

person

1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester
7. Chicken Hash
8. Frequently upset the stepkids (both sets); step daughter wrote "tell all" book
9. Rue Boissy
10. Kept the Bentley
11. "The Sound of Music"
12. F__k You Money

[Will]

Marjorie Post?

[Will]

Oops, I missed the "Sound of Music" and "... Money clues. I can't make many of the clues fit my (poor) knowlede of Majorie Post. She did lead a lavish lifestyle, though.

[Ted]

Hugh Hefner?

[Old-Barbarossa]

Are they all just random phrases rather than clues?
Will 13 be: Elephant banjo?
I am truly bewildered...

[Ted]

Me, too. I realize that Legion d'honneur and "The Sound of Music" sure don't sound like Hefner, and F.O.B. has me stumped -- unless you mean "a F.O.B" as in Friend of Bill.

I just can't think of a celebtrity (Life magazine) with toxic step-children who was so wealthy that he/she had F--- You Money and (in a divorce settlement?) "kept the Bentley."

[Will]

Those clues, Ted, fit Marjorie Post, plus she was inducted into Legion of Honor. Sound of Music? I have no idea.

[Will]

"Sound of Music? I have no idea." Maybe Julie Andrews? Nahhhh....

I decided it must be a female because of "kept the Bentley" and "Life" clues but that may be an erronius assumption.

[Ted]

Yet, Marjorie Merriweather Post:

Proud to be known as F.O.B.?
Conversion to catholocism? just doesn't hack it.

F.O.B. could mean Friend of Bill, Free on Board, Fresh off the Boat, Forward Operating Base, Fall Out Boy, Federal Office Building, or Fractional Orbital Bombardment!

[Ted]

Will, maybe the "Sound fo Music" refers to a tryst she had at the Dorchester with Christopher Plummer when he was a teenager? After all, the Von Trapp family was Catholic. haha

[Will]

F.O.B. is a shipping term for Free on Board, usually. I'm sure that's not the reference meant here. Marjorie Post married several times and may have converted to be Catholic for a husband...maybe? Maybe not.

She owned several homes and the Rue Boissy area of Paris would have fit her M.O., as would the Dorchester. Chicken hash? I'm clueless.

[Manuel]

Will your assumption is not wrong.

not Julie Andrews
not random clues

[Ted]

Manuel wrote: "Will your assumption is not wrong.

not Julie Andrews
not random clues"

Manuel, so do you deny Hugh Hefner and Marjorie Merriweather Post? I thought the way this worked is you say "no" to each wrong guess, however lame.

I've spent a lot of time on this one. I would not be at all upset if you just told us who it is.

[Will]

So it is a female. I still think it might be Marjorie Post. I can't make all the clues fit, but she comes closer than any others I think of; closer than the Unsinkable Molly Brown, I'd think. She was honored by the Legion. So was Sarah Bernhardt but she wasn't very wealthy. Marie-Helene de Rostchild had some serious F U Money, but nothing else fits, except the Legion Honor.

There's not that many females,who recieved the Legion Honor: Sharon Stone (yeah, really) and Barbara Streisand, a few French Resistance heroines, etc. Covered by Life magazine cross-referenced to list of Legion honorees should do it. Anyone good at that sort of research?

[Manuel]

person

1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester. It was assumed it could withstand a direct hit during the Blitz.
7. Chicken Hash. Made it everyday.
8. Frequently upset the stepkids (both sets); step daughter wrote "tell all" book
9. Rue Boissy
10. Kept the Bentley
11. "The Sound of Music"
12. F__k You Money
13. Not fond of the Republican Party

[Ted]

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Manuel]

person

1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester. It was assumed it could withstand a direct hit during the Blitz.
7. Chicken Hash. Made it everyday.
8. Frequently upset the stepkids (both sets); step daughter wrote "tell all" book
9. Rue Boissy
10. Kept the Bentley
11. "The Sound of Music"
12. F__k You Money
13. Not fond of the Republican Party
14. Abandoned by first husband

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

Is this Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman?

[Manuel]

Finally
Yes,
Bravo

I was running out of non google clues

1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject (by Cecil Beaton) Young Pamela with Winston's grandson
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal( Upset Winston Churchill and Brit Aristocrats)
4. Received Legion d'honneur (From Pres Jacques Chirac)
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B. (Friend of Bill-as in friend of Bill Clinton-heavy contributions to his election)At her death in Paris, Pres Clinton ordered Air Force One to retreave her casket.

6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester. It was assumed it could withstand a direct hit during the Blitz.She and lover(s) Averell Harriman, Jock Whitney, Bill Paley, Edward R Murrow etc etc.
7. Chicken Hash. Made it everyday for her 3rd husband. (Averell Harriman's favorite dish)
8. Frequently upset the stepkids (both sets); step daughter wrote "tell all" book
9. Rue Boissy (Location of US Embassy in Paris)
10. Kept the Bentley
11. "The Sound of Music" (Produced by 2nd husband)
12. F__k You Money (Averill Harriman left her a fortune in his will)
13. Not fond of the Republican Party (Heavy fund raising for Democratic candidates-Rewarded with post of US Ambassador to France)
14. Abandoned by first husband (Winston's son)

Jim almost got it when he said
"Winton's Mother, Pamela?"

[Ted]

Susanna wrote: "Is this Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman?"

YAY! Would never have known. And, yes, a masterful job of making it virtually un-Googlable.

But next time, Manuel, you're limited to 25 clues, ok?

LOL

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

25 clues?

Snort!

[Will]

I still think it was Marjie Post. Just kidding.

Susanna was the one who passed the last one off to Manuel. Don't do that again, Susanna. He plays too rough.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

A person:

1. Educated in France.
2. Barred from voting, entering politics, or voting, politicians feared his pen.
3. He was "the last" as of July 4, 1826.
4. Related by blood and marriage to both the Duke of Wellington and the Bonapartes.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

Yup - very good, Marco! (I didn't even get to post the bit about laying the cornerstone of the Baltimore & Ohio - I was saving that clue.)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

Will wrote: "I still think it was Marjie Post. Just kidding.

Susanna was the one who passed the last one off to Manuel. Don't do that again, Susanna. He plays too rough. "

I threw it up in the air for anyone to grab! Don't blame me that Manuel got it, mister!

[Old-Barbarossa]

A conspiracy! Susanna and Manuel are Illumiated Seers Of Bavaria!

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

And this is what I get for actually getting Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman? Conspiracy accusations?

Hmmmmph.

[Old-Barbarossa]

I jest...please don't have me fed to Cthulhu!
I do like this thread though. It shows the gaping holes in my knowledge and forces me to think.

[Will]

Think? What is that? Oh, I remember...something I used to do but gave up years ago. I'd rather find a way to cheat like Manuel does. Just playing.

I'm starting a pool on how many clues Manuel's choice will requre before it's solved, and taking bets it's Susanna or Jim, who will solve it. I pick 16 clues and Susanna to win it.

[Manuel]

Oh come on Guys!
I practically left you a trail of breadcrumbs to all her lovers and husbands. LOL


Regarding clue #10 Kept the Bentley.
Supposedly after her 7 year romance with Gianni Agnelli (head of Fiat) was over; he only left her a Paris apartment and a Bentley. I thought that was ironic, since she also changed her religion for him.
He could have at least thrown in a few more Fiats!!!

[Jim]

Tito?

[Ted]

Nicolae Ceausescu

[Manuel]

Anastasio Samoza

[Will]

Ferdinand Marcos?

[Jim]

Ahmed Sékou Touré?

[Will]

Uh, oh. Now what?

Boy, did I miss it on the pool. Four clues! Wow, a record for Manuel.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

This one was Marco, not Manuel, Will!

[Jim]

There are an awful lot of nasty dictators out there. I was surprised by how many.

I came across a list of modern dictators while trying to find the answer to Marco's clues. You all might want to check it out. Warning - it's long!

http://www.conservapedia.com/List_of_...

[Will]

Oh, you're right; I'm wrong. Duh! Sorry.

Here you go:

1. Left home to live with aunt

2. First Regiment of African Light Cavalry

3. ...beaches of Normandy

4. took refuge in England

Have fun.

[Jim]

Claude Monet?

[Ted]

Jim wrote: "Claude Monet?"

Yup, gotta be.

[Ted]

Marco wrote: "Haha! His aunt? :P"

Wikipedia, of Monet: "On 28 January 1857 his mother died. He was 16 years old when he left school and went to live with his widowed childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre."

[Jim]

In 1861, he joined the First African Light Cavalry & in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, he went to England. He met Boudin & learned to paint on the beaches of Normandy. I guess it could be someone else, but he meets all of Will's clues.

[Will]

Yep. Ya'll 're too good. I thought the military-type references and England might send someone off in the wrong direction.

Jim, it's time for you to do one, anyway. Go!

[Will]

I just had a thought. What would have been funny was to say, "Nope. Not Monet." Let ya'll dangle for a while and then go, "I lied." Not funny? Okay. LOL

[Jim]

That would have been funny (years later).
;-)

Person
1. Degree in Theater
2. homesteaded in the New Mexico mountains
3. energetic, "one take" format
4. "Impossible Joints"

[Manuel]

jerry garcia

[Ted]

you guys crack me up ,.. wanna play for money? how bout Wikipedia is banned? How about famous homosexuals? lol