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Readers less forgetful than Harriet Reeves promptly took Rose to task. Wasn't his tale the same as a short story of Evelyn Waugh's, first published in 1936 under the title "Bella Fleace Gave a Party'? Waugh's story told about a lonely, eccentric Irishwoman who had also resolved to give a ball for the neighbors she had so long neglected. None of the invited guests came. Concluded Waugh: "A day later she died. Mr. Banks [her heir] . . . spent a week sorting out her effects. Among them he found in her escritoire, stamped, addressed...
First under the light was a stout, bellicose woman in a figured blue dress. She was Dr. Bella V. Dodd, onetime legislative representative for New York's Teachers Union. Until she was expelled from the party in 1949, she implied, she had been a considerably bigger Communist functionary than Louis Budenz. "I have never met Owen Lattimore," said Dr. Dodd loudly. "In all my association with the Communist Party I never heard his name mentioned . . . either as a party member or as a fellow traveler, or even as a friend." But, as her subsequent remarks made clear, she herself...
...Said That? (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Bella Spewack...
...support of the powerful Authentic Revolutionary Party and would have won the 1948 presidential elections if an electoral jury had not thrown out 2,714 of his ballots. When the Supreme Court declared ousted Daniel Chanis still the lawful President, Remón went straight to Arnulfo's Bella Vista home and invited the man he helped toss out in 1941 to take over at the palace...
...poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so Mamma hustled her off to her wealthy London godmother who undertook to find Bella a rich husband. When the coach broke down on the way, Bella sought shelter at the nearest house, which turned out to be the country home of Mr. Robert Beaumaris, the handsomest, the most polished, the most excitingly built, the most sought after, and, of course, one of the richest catches...