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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Courtly Charm. Twice divorced, the last time after a tempestuous marriage to Zsa Zsa Gabor ("If I had waited one hour more, I never would have married Zsa Zsa," Hilton regretfully told a friend), Hilton now prefers the company of younger women-mostly airline stewardesses in their early 20s. He treats them with courtly charm, asks nothing of them except that they be attractive and pleasant companions for dinner and dancing. More often than not, he stays home alone and goes to bed after an evening of television. His favorite show is Sing Along with Mitch, and Hilton explains...
...martini before dinner and a nightcap of bourbon and water. He comes to his post with some knowledge of American girls, since in 1938 he married one, Mary McEldowney, onetime associate editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Simpsons have two married daughters just into their 20s and a son, Rupert, 11. Simpson believes adamantly in the purpose and future of women's colleges: "The strength of education in this country is its diversity. A coeducational campus is a male-dominated campus. Chicago prides itself on no prejudices, yet even there you will find leadership monopolized...
...abashed by all the fuss, Kennedy took his major critics to lunch. He tactfully refrained from telling his home state that Old Ironsides belongs to the whole U.S., even though she has been a historic shrine in Boston Harbor since 1909. Her renovation in the late '20s was aided by the pennies of schoolchildren across the nation, and the U.S. Navy has since manned and maintained her at an annual cost of about $35,000. But he did wield a secret weapon: his older brother's personal interest in moving the 165-year-old vessel...
Nabokov's young hero is very like the young Nabokov. Count Fyodor Godu-nov-Cherdyntsev is in his early 20s, living in exile in Berlin, struggling not to be crippled by memories of the ancient family estate in Leshino, and trying to get his poetry and prose published in impoverished emigre magazines. His sister marries and leaves for Paris; he meets and falls in love with Zina, a remotely fragile German girl. All of this is simple, and corresponds roughly to the facts of Nabokov's own life...
...curiously two-sided architect who remained firmly on the side of tradition in such sound and solid buildings as the British pavilions at four international exhibitions and the New Royal Horticultural Hall in London, but gained his greatest fame as a highly progressive teacher of the '20s and '30s, encouraging his students to follow the emerging modern architecture that he never employed in his own work; after a long illness; in London...