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...PARTNERS by LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS 254 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Snobbery is no slave to the pull of gravity. It can move from the bottom up as well as from the top down. Take, for example, the case of the novelist and short-story writer Louis Auchincloss. In part because he is widely read, he has been consistently snubbed by what is conveniently called the critical community. Auchincloss, 56, a graduate of Groton and Yale and a practicing Wall Street lawyer, writes mainly about the declines and cushioned falls of good-family New Yorkers. He is a lucid, confident and tidy observer of this small community; yet many critics (expecting...
...publication of all Walpole's available letters. Lewis was appointed a university research assistant to work on the project, but he waived the customary salary. With an inheritance from his mother, whose family were California landholders, Lewis was independently wealthy. So was his late wife, the former Annie Auchincloss, who was a granddaughter of Oliver B. Jennings, a founder of the original Standard Oil Company. In fact, Lewis has borne all the research costs of the Walpole endeavor, including some 80 trips abroad in quest of material and the salaries of all his assistants (who have usually numbered about...
...other singles matches, Joy Skon at number three lost to Diane Strauss, 6-4, 6-1, and fourth player Jill Robertson dropped her match to Linden Havemeyer, 6-3, 6-1. Ingrid Sarapuu lost to Betsey Auchincloss, 6-0, 6-2, and Marcy Richmond was defeated...
...first doubles team of Morgan and Stearns took Rosenblum and MacFarland to three hard-fought sets, but were unable to pull out the match, while Kathy Agoos and Lissa Muscatine lost to Havemeyer and Auchincloss...