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More than Reality. The memoir itself is lesser Lawrence in philosophy ("Sex is almost the essence of living"), and the style is the still lesser English that might be expected of a Prussian baron's daughter. But the letters are delightful and perceptive. Most startlingly, they reveal that Frieda was at least as sexually uninhibited as Lawrence himself professed to be (which was a good deal more than he was in reality...
...sequined trousers. Not Liz. "I.wear slacks to work," she sniffed, threw on her gold lame sari by Balenciaga, and discovered that in spite of being so old-gown, she rated Table Numero Un between two boulevardiers who could afford to clothe her in pure gold: Aristotle Onassis and Baron Guy de Rothschild...
...things. Three weeks later, Preston moved out on his offstage wife of 24 years, Catherine, and began to concentrate on after-theater sorties with his leading lady, Swedish Singer Ulla Sallert, 41. Ulla says it is "just a coincidence" that she is divorcing her husband of 19 years, Baron Franz von Lampe. "I am not a home-cracker," she coos, "but if I'm invited by my leading partner to dinner, I don't see why I shouldn't accept...
...shingle as Sir Dingle. Meanwhile the left Foots' forthright brother, Sir Hugh Foot, 57, sometime colonial governor and Britain's U.N. delegate, is about to be made a lord, and must decide what name to take after it. am afraid," says he, "that use of 'the Baron Foot' might lead to references to 'the dead hand,' " and so he will reappear in the peerage as Baron Caradon of St. Cleer...
...patter song By the Mississine-wah in 1943's Something for the Boys, she was singing about the river that flowed through the 750-acre property in rural Indiana, where Cole Porter was raised. His father was an Indiana fruitgrower, and his grandfather was a coal and timber baron worth $50 million. As a boy, Porter was a prodigy who was writing songs before he was ten. When he got to Yale (class of 1913), he immortalized the college mascot; Yalemen will remember him forever as the chap who wrote "Bulldog, bulldog, bow, wow, wow, Eli Yale...