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TOLSTOY: A LIFE OF MY FATHER (543 pp.)-Alexandra Tolsyoy-Harper...
...Alexandra, youngest of Tolstoy's daughters, has written the umpteenth story of her father's life, coincident with the publication of a new, grand-scale biography of Chekhov. Author Tolstoy was her father's secretary, and her book is a useful, bulky filing cabinet of Tolstoyana, though empty of literary substance. David Magarshack is a pundit of the Russian drama who has already written a life of Producer Stanislavsky and a study of Chekhov's plays. His huge, valuable Chekhov resembles Tolstoy only in that it, too. is more a receptacle for facts than a vehicle...
Married. Sir Alexander Korda, 59, British cinemogul (The Third Man, Breaking Through the Sound Barrier); and Alexandra Irene Boycun, 23, farm-bred Canadian singer; he for the third time, she for the first; in a surprise civil ceremony at Vence, in southern France. Said Moviemaker Korda: "She has never played in a film, and never will...
...speed marks as Barney Oldfield's 131-m.p.h. pace on Daytona Beach's measured mile in 1910. Gottlieb Daimler, whose company merged with Benz's in 1926, built the first practical gasoline-driven car, and turned out luxurious limousines for royalty (e.g., England's Queen Alexandra and Germany's own Kaiser Wilhelm). After the merger, Daimler-Benz (with France's Bugatti and Italy's Alfa Romeo) dominated European road racing until World...
Banished Belles. Austerely handsome, upright and proper to a degree unusual in Edwardian England, the new Duchess of York stood in severe contrast to her radiant mother-in-law, Queen Alexandra, a woman whom Britons loved as much for King Edward VII's well-known unreliability as for her own beauty. Soon after the accession of husband George, in 1910, Queen Mary let it be known that "I will not have anyone around me about whom there is a breath of scandal"-a statement which automatically banished dozens of Edwardian belles from the royal court...