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"  As New York temperatures dipped to sub-zero levels this week\u2014well, sub-zero Celsius\u2014Princess Grace looked positively sultry beside her young Prince Albert of Monaco on our December 1963 cover. Sure, the climate in this sunny tax haven in the C\u00F4te d&amp;#039;Azur is almost always delightfully Mediterranean\u2014the prince&amp;#039;s getup confirms our beliefs\u2014but T&amp;amp;amp;C never met a mink coat we didn&amp;#039;t like. Kelly&amp;#039;s story is every girl&amp;#039;s fairytale dream, but she was no Cinderella. Raised in a Philadelphia family of significant prominence, her mother Margaret was the first woman director of University of Pennsylvania&amp;#039;s Physical Education Department and her father Jack was a triple Olympic-gold-medal-winning sculler who struck it rich with a very successful construction company and later became the National Director of Physical Fitness under FDR. Though Jack considered acting &amp;quot;a slim cut above streetwalker,&amp;quot; Kelly pursued it anyway. She quickly won an Oscar (opposite Bing Crosby in The Country Girl) then found fame as a Hitchcock muse before retiring at just 26 to marry Prince Rainier III and take on 142 official titles as the Princess of Monaco. On another note, in the spirit of the imminent holidays, our Grace Kelly issue had some sound advice for getting through the party season with radiance and aplomb. There were spa treatment tips, lipstick hue advice, and for those uncertain whether they ought to lose some weight, this trusty mid-sixties formula: &amp;quot;Figure your height in inches, then subtract whatever your waist measures. If the result is less than thirty-six, then you should start subtracting.&amp;quot; For the hostess, we suggested calling the Dawn Animal Agency, whose co-owner would bring a wild animal to your party. The lion, for example, would sit on his own red carpet but not be allowed to mingle while the chimpanzee would &amp;quot;not only mix with the crowd but mix Martinis and pass them around to the bowled-over guests.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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