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Among the details of her astonishing life that Beryl Markham did not bother to mention in her vivid and quirky autobiographical memoir West with the Night were her three marriages, the existence of a son and her married name. In her recollections, which were republished four years ago and became a best seller after a PBS documentary last year on her life, she left out her volcanic love affairs, which seem to have numbered in the dozens and included alliances with such notable gents as Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Conductor Leopold Stokowski...
...Beryl, as everyone called her, spent money when she had it and ran up bills when she did not. In important matters, which meant clothes and horses, she went first-class. She had women friends -- Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) was an early protector -- but she liked men better. Her maternal instinct was fitful at best, and her appetite for casual sex made uproarious disarray of her marriages. Blixen once wrote of her own husband Bror (who became Beryl's occasional bedmate) that "he looked down benevolently and lasciviously upon womankind and had been raised to believe that the entire world...
...Administration that has had more than its share of discord, Beryl Sprinkel will be remembered as a trusted team player. Sprinkel, 63, who resigned last week for personal reasons as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, could be counted on to voice strong support for Ronald Reagan's policies. That was in sharp contrast to the free spirit of his predecessor, Martin Feldstein, who frequently stirred controversy by publicly appearing to differ with the President. But while Feldstein earned praise for his independence, Sprinkel, a former bank economist, had more influence in the Administration. He is credited with reinforcing...
...board, which is carefully chosen to represent diverse economic and political viewpoints, has become something of a regular activity during the past decade. Since the board was founded in 1969 to swap views on economic trends with TIME's editors, four members -- Greenspan, Murray Weidenbaum, Martin Feldstein and Beryl Sprinkel -- have left to serve as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Jokes Alexander: "We're running out of economists to give to our country." Three other board members -- Walter Heller, Arthur Okun and Charles Schultze -- served as chairman before joining the TIME group...
...alternatives. Greenspan's name topped their list. Second came Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead, 65, a well-known expert on international monetary matters; before joining the State Department he was a highly successful investment banker at the Manhattan-based firm of Goldman Sachs. Third on the list was Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Shultz and James Baker discreetly sounded out the two top choices about their availability...