Arie Leonard Kopelman was an American businessman and philanthropist. He served as the President and COO of Chanel from 1986 until 2004, when he retired and was succeeded by former Banana Republic President Maureen Chiquet. He remained at Chanel as Vice Chairman of the Board until 2008.

1938Romy Schneider, German-French actress (died 1982)^[†]

Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, known professionally as Romy Schneider, was a German and French actress. She is regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time and became a cult figure due to her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Sissi trilogy in the mid-1950s. She later reprised the role in a more mature version in Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1973). She began her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. Schneider moved to France, where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era. Coco Chanel called Romy "the ultimate incarnation of the ideal woman". Bertrand Tavernier remarked: "Sautet is talking about Mozart with regard to Romy. Me, I want to talk of Verdi, Mahler..."

Headlines from September 23, 1938

GEN. SYROVY FORMS NEW CZECH CABINET; 250,000Dembnstrate in Prague Stressing Country's Unity in Crisis-Benes Asks Patience

BRITAIN REDOUBLES AIR-RAID MEASURES; 14 Gas Mask Stations to Open in London Today-Clamor Against Chamberlain Rises Gas Mask Stations to Open BRITAIN REDOUBLES AIR-RAID MEASURES Blunt Question to Hitler Chamberlain Hopeful Letters Flood Newspapers Sees Good Faith Impaired Halifax Lauds Mission

HARTFORD FIGHTS MENACE OF FLOOD; Sandbag Dikes Are Erected as Connecticut River Rises Far Above Safety Stage Park River Backs Up National Guard Standing By HARTFORD FIGHTS MENACE OF ROOD Massive Trees Uprooted Guardsmen Patrol New London

Hurricane Victims Swept Into Sea As Tidal Wave Hit Rhode Island; Water 12 Feet Deep in Providence Streets Soon After Hurricane Broke--7 Children in One Section Found Drowned in School Bus

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