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...Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says, "he was in the habit of turning his watch back an hour so that he could have a Sainte Geneviève soufflé." An ardent addict is Ava Gardner, who once called the restaurant at 11 p.m., when all the cooks had gone home, and asked if she could have dinner. "Certainement," said Terrail, who proceeded to cook her a steak. "It was the worst I've ever had," Ava said. The late Winthrop Rockefeller...
Nico Diederichs, the 71-year-old financial expert who is credited with boosting South Africa's growth rate in recent years, is among the most ardent advocates of the National Party's hard-line white supremacy policy...
...quite a prelude to World War III, but the scene at the frontier etween the two nations was nonetheless a disquieting reprise of old cold war showdowns. Ardent nationalists demonstrated, inflammatory editorials issued calls to arms, tanks moved into position, and ships at sea began "strategic maneuvers." Berlin? Czechoslovakia? In fact, the moves and countermoves involved the area around Trieste, on the Yugoslav-Italian border, which until now has been one of the most successfully accommodated (though never finally resolved) East-West disputes...
Some of these stories are mere wisps-a filament of character, a. frisson of nuance. A few are too fanciful by half. What makes the collection very much worth reading is the author's ardent belief in her characters. Paley finds all her people exceptional, and she describes them with a charge of feeling that is unfailingly seductive...
Both boys are right-partly. There is quite a bit of baloney in Grandma's book, but along with such things as an especially treacly view of her husband's disposition and career that all but the most ardent Kennedy fans will find hard to swallow, the reader is offered much nourishment. He learns a good deal, for example, about the frail, "funny little boy" who became President; about J.F.K.'s older sister Rosemary, who was retarded from birth; about that conscientious younger brother Bob; about the hard work that marriage demands-even from the very rich...