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Married. Prince Sadruddin (Sadri) Khan, 24, younger son of the late Aga Khan III (and his third wife, Andrée Carron), uncle of the new Aga Khan IV; and Nina Sheila Dyer, 27, onetime London fashion model; he for the first time, she for the second; in Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland...
FARAWAY (245 pp.)-André Dhôtel- Simon & Schuster...
...stood to reason that Novelist André Malraux, onetime fighter pilot with the Loyalists in Spain's civil war, and internationally famed art critic, would eventually zero in on Francisco Goya. An illness deafened Goya in his 40s and turned him from pleasant art to black indictments of man's inhumanity and fate's immutability. Believing that Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 spelled liberation, Goya at first collaborated. Inevitable disillusion further deepened his pessimism. Malraux, too, had a severe comeuppance in middle age when his Communist leanings proved to have been a flirtation with...
...becoming more or less typical of uncounted U.S. households. Mood music-most of it consisting simply of old favorites and not-so-favorites warmed over-currently accounts for roughly a third of several major companies' album sales. Such old grads of the whipped-cream-and-syrup school as André Kostelanetz, Paul Weston, Phil Spitalny and George Melachrino did some pioneering as early as the '40s, were later joined by a host of others. TV's Jackie Gleason became such an adept mood picker that his Music for Lovers Only sold half a million copies...
This is what Historian André Castelot chose to do in Queen of France. His biography of Marie Antoinette scarcely hints at the desperate conditions that bred the French Revolution and doomed the King and Queen. Castelot is interested only in the Queen, whose flawless complexion, royal bearing and gilded extravagance made her the peerless symbol of aristocratic absolutism. For a symbol is all that Marie Antoinette ever was; and even if she had never squandered millions on jewelry, chateaux, make-believe villages and elaborate carnivals, the deluge would still have come, forced from below by sufferings as real...