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...beauty. And on those counts, Lee Radziwill, 30, handily qualified for Philippe Halsman's gallery of eight of Europe's loveliest women, which appeared in Paris Match. Winding up his six-week study of the ladies, he found Lee in her London home, popped her into a Castillo evening gown and clicked away. "She has an extremely interesting and beautiful face," he said afterward. But presumably not all that fascinating to the editors of McCall's, who had eleven months ago run a fashion piece on her. With an abridged version of the gallery in the coming...
THROUGH THE HOOP (351 pp.)-Michel Del Castillo-Knopf...
Spanish-born Michel Del Castillo, 30, spent a harrowing childhood in European concentration camps, but was able to recall his experiences calmly and compassionately in a widely praised first novel, Child of Our Time. In his third novel, Del Castillo is more belligerent and less interesting. He now seems bent on taking revenge on all the adults who blighted his childhood in Franco's Spain...
There are enough villains to populate Dante's Inferno: priests, bishops, mothers, fathers, Falangists, high society, low society, expatriates. Del Castillo is a kind of chatty Virgil who takes his readers on a tour of these monsters, pausing before them for ponderous comments like "Oh, the mysteries of life." It is not that the light touch is beyond Del Castillo. A felicitous phrase occasionally escapes him: they had "the habit of sprinkling theft and graft with holy water." It is just that he cannot refrain from constantly clubbing his characters senseless. In a matter of three pages, he manages...
Wending his nomadic way home from the U.S. via Spain, Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 60, descended on Malaga in his Boeing 720 and took over the sumptuous Castillo Santa Catalina. His fortnight's rental (including a bed custom-made to his outsized dimensions) came to $10,000, but after two days, Saud restlessly roared off to Torremolinos. Although His Majesty had neglected to pay the bill, the Castillo's proprietors remained unruffled. Saud, it was understood, had arrived in Spain with a $340,000 bank draft and -for walking-around money-traveler's checks totaling...