Word: bouchees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Ouvrez la Bouche." By background and experience, blueblooded, boyishly handsome Jim Symington has unusual qualifications for the job-His father is Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, his mother the daughter of the late Senator James Wadsworth and granddaughter of Secretary of State John Hay. After Eastern schooling (Deerfield...
Hitherto, young Symington has been best known in Washington society as a baritone folk singer and guitar player who performed for Queen Elizabeth II while he was special assistant (from 1958 to 1960) to his cousin, John Hay Whitney, then Ambassador to Britain. When the Symingtons went to Washington, he...
Born in Oklahoma and only a two-year resident of suburban Oak Brook, Mrs. Butler claims to be delighted with Chicago ("It's like a pregnant woman, just beginning to be recognized"). She makes frequent trips to town, adores an evening at the opera or dinner at a favorite...
Died. Rene Robert Bouche, 57, brilliant Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover artist (Jean Kerr, Sophia Loren, John F. and Edward Kennedy); of a heart attack; in Ling-field, England. A slight, wiry, cosmopolite (Czech-born, to a French father, Hungarian mother), Bouche studied in Munich and Paris, went through...
The book flirts fashionably with incest and inversion (Cass has a curiously susceptible lady psychiatrist); the style is full of mannerisms and cultural snobberies, e.g., people are not openmouthed but bouche-bée. And how is the reader to care about a heroine who says, "Just give me the...