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...consequences which overtook Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens after he obligingly posed with Army Private G. David Schine, retorted with a stiff, military "Hell, no!" Swinging down into the U.S. after a three-week royal tour of Canada, Britain's handsome Duchess of Kent and her daughter, Princess Alexandra, 17, set Manhattan hostesses' knees trembling to curtsy, boards ready to groan. But the Duchess, whose U.S. visit is unofficial, apparently evaded most of the lacquered talons, went quietly about sightseeing like any other tourist in the big city for the first time. At week's end, with...
...ALEXANDRA K. FIETZ...
...hardy booklovers who could never quite untangle its polysyllabic characters distinctly enough to muddle through War and Peace, a distinguished new name was added. The bored nonreader: Author Leo Tolstoy himself. In Chicago, on the eve of her 70th birthday, the great Russian novelist's daughter, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, confided that her unpredictable father preferred his folk tales and short stories to the eye-straining 687,000 words of his most famous novel. "He never reread War and Peace," said she. "And when he heard us reading it aloud one day, he didn't even recognize...
PARIS ORIGINAL (340 pp.)-Alexandra Orme-Houghton Miffliin...
Some books are destined, not for the ages, but for the nearest hammock. Elliot Paul's Desperate Scenery and Alexandra Orme's Paris Original are light summer fare, earmarked for twin hammocks stamped "His" and "Hers." Author Paul who often as not writes about Paris, this time has written an autobiographical boy-faces-life yarn set in the remote reaches of 1910 Idaho and Wyoming. Authoress Orme's novel is a girl-meets-love story set in the feline, high-fashion world of postwar Paris. Each book lightheartedly holds a slightly askew mirror up to human nature...