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Daily PostJuly 11, 2008

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IT IS perhaps surprising that the willowy beauty, adored by photographers, lipstick advertisers and moviemakers, who cruised through five husbands in a career which makes today's supermodel, Kate Moss, seem like a girl guide, should have studied calculus at university.

In a rare moment of understatement, Cecil Beaton, the be-hatted photographer, noted that she possessed "the sweetness of an 18th- century pastel, the allure of a Sargent portrait, or the poignancy of some unfortunate woman who sat for Modigliani".

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