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Four Dogs. At Lady Molly's is largely centered on the raffish salon of Lady Molly Jeavons, who was born an Ardglass (a family "hopelessly insolvent since the Land Act"), was once married to a peer, but has come down to being the wife of the dim, unemployable Jeavons ("He was something left over from the war"). One could meet "absolutely anybody" at Lady Molly's, including her cats, her "four principal dogs," and her monkey called Maisky (after the Soviet ambassador). "Not long ago Lord Amesbury looked in on his way to a Court ball, wearing knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Absolutely Anybody | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...Waugh-begone women, Bijou Ardglass and Baby Wentworth, who hunt their gross and boorish businessmen prey. One of the girls ends up in a bad marriage to an Italian. ("His profession?" "I don't think I know you well enough to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corpse in the Garden | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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