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...conducted the initial summer concerts of the Boston Symphony, and of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who once lived in a little red cottage on the edge of the 210-acre estate called Tanglewood. Wrote Hawthorne: "There is a glen between this house and the lake through which winds a little brook with pools, and tiny waterfalls over the great roots of trees . . . Beyond the lake is Monument Mountain, looking like a headless sphinx wrapped in a Persian shawl, when clad in the rich and diversified autumnal foliage of its woods." To the lush beauty of nature, Tanglewood added the spare beauty...
Married. Margott Pérez Jiménez, 17, eldest daughter of Venezuela's ex-Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez (who languishes in a Miami jail awaiting possible extradition home on charges of embezzling $13 million); and Lee Brook, 20, a onetime car-park attendant; after an elopement that touched off a nationwide hunt, which ended when Brook called his brother from their hideout, a nearby motel, to announce: "I love her and I've got her"; in Key West...
...also entertained Russian Assistant Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov, who had been pals for some time with her mentor, Dr. Stephen Ward. M15, British intelligence, apparently discovered only half of what Wilson scathingly called "this dingy quadrilateral." In August 1961, according to the Commons debate, Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook warned Profumo that it would be better for the Secretary for War not to be too friendly with Ward; he did not mention, and evidently did not know about, Christine. Nothing of this was reported to Macmillan...
...early January 1921, when Beaver-brook's account begins, witty, flamboyant Lloyd George had been Prime Minister for four years. As the man who had led his nation to victory in World War 1 and founded the welfare state, he enjoyed greater popular support than any other British politician in more than a century. Politically, he seemed a titan, ruling over squabbling pygmies. Yet the fact was, as Beaverbrook tells the story. "Lloyd George was a Prime Minister without a party." His own Liberal Party was split into warring factions. Severe unemployment at home and violent disagreements over foreign...
...weeks." Trout & Candles. As the Linen party lasted into the night, a final flurry of preparations was going on in New York. Ready for the tables were 680 handmade, solid-wax candles with a five-hour burning capacity. In the Waldorf kitchens, the staff was preparing 1,800 small brook trout raised specifically in a Long Island hatchery for the appetizer: Truite de Rivière en Gelée à la Muguette. In the ballroom, a team of theater directors and producers rehearsed spotlighting cues for introduction of guests until 6:30 a.m. Monday. Last-minute acceptances and cancellations...