Word: amber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor, who was touring Spain when her latest book, The Lovers, was published, announced in Manhattan that she was hard at work on an American historical novel, and would leave the country as soon as it is finished. "Not for good," she explained. "I just take a long vacation around the time another of my books comes out so I can't possibly read the reviews...
...abouitous pearls, which are replacing the thoughtlessly-tied scarf at the neck of a sweater, blouse or shirt. These are often obviously fake pearls, many ropes of them, of a phenomenal size. They can be iridiscent, or big knobby baroque pearls. They may be interlarded with equally fraudulent amber and gold. Anyway, pearls all over the place...
...writer can quite reproduce the "feel" of a characteristic line by Kathleen Winsor: "They stood together, his legs widespread"; "He swept the hair off her neck and put his mouth there"; "He smelt like weeds rotted in water." Even longer stretches of Winsor prose have that touch of pure Amber. "She had been surprised at the discovery of an eager sensual appetite within herself. It had been in hiding, apparently, for most of her life . . . and then one day it had appeared." "It was one of the few times he had met a woman who did not instantly flare...
Marriage Revealed. Artie Shaw, 42, bandleader and author ( The Trouble With Cinderella), whose former wives have included Cinemactresses Lana Turner (No. 3) and Ava Gardner (No. 5) and Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor (No. 6); and Cinemactress Doris (The Lost Weekend) Dowling, 29; he for the seventh time, she for the first; on June 19; in North Canaan, Conn...
Five federal judges decided that Novelist Kathleen Winsor is no novelist, thus bearing out the literary critics who always claimed that Forever Amber, her lusty epic of Restoration England, is no novel. The question before the court: should the $165,000 Kathleen got for movie rights to Amber be taxed as author's income or, at a lower rate, as a non-author's capital gain? The judges' ruling: "The book was written . . . primarily because she enjoyed" it, not with a publication "purpose in mind." To Capital-Gainer Winsor and former husband (No. 1 of three) Robert...