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...academic circles. After all, it was not merely dirty. Harris was a literary figure, an editor of some stature in late-Victorian London, a familiar of such wits as Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm and Bernard Shaw. Between beds, his book is studded with "As I said to Lord Asquith . . ." and intimate tidbits that every conscientious scholar should know about the private life of literary personages ranging from Thomas Carlyle to Guy de Maupassant. Harris' obsession with and clinical description of his mistresses' vital organs could be construed as incidental diversion, if not downright annoyance...
...V.l.P.S. It isn't much fun to spend the night in an airport, but somehow Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles, Rod Taylor, Margaret Rutherford and Director Anthony Asquith manage to make it seem that...
...Downing has never been anyone's dream house. Jerry-built half a century earlier as a private residence by a Harvard-educated speculator, Sir George Downing, the Whitehall relic, four stories high, so depressed Melbourne that he refused to set foot in it. Haughty Margot Asquith called it "squalid," Lloyd George's wife would not move in until adequate plumbing was installed. During the blitz, Churchill complained that it was "shaky." One ancient boiler heated both Nos. 10 and 11, residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, leading then-Chancellor Rab Butler to complain that when Churchill...
...partly to a couple of big fat camera hogs and partly to a tidy script by Terence (Separate Tables) Rattigan, The V.I.P.s is on the whole an entertaining film. The poor, that is to say, should find it entertaining; the rich may find it less than flattering. Director Anthony Asquith seems to agree with the fellow who remarked: "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he has given...
...case, the changes proposed last week impressed most Britons as a necessary, if overdue, step toward more thoroughgoing reform of "the lethal chamber," as Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith called it in 1911. Displaced M.P. Wedgwood Benn, who has eked out a living as a free-lance writer for the past year, called the committee report "a victory for common sense." When the law is changed, he vowed, "I shall be queuing up with my thermos the moment the doors open...