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...purgatory" awaiting Henry James in the hereafter: "Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far off for him to hear what the countess is saying...
...death at the age of 36. Byron in Italy is an account of what Byron did while he was waiting for death - his friendship with Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his affairs with various Venetian slum women and men ; his services as a gigolo-extraordinary to dumpy, dull, married Countess Teresa Guiccioli. It is also an account of his most active years as a romantic revolutionist, and of some of his most productive years as a poet...
Cicisbeo. Meanwhile Byron had found time to write The Prisoner of Chilian, several cantos of Childe Harold, Manfred, Beppo, was working on Don Juan. One day at a party he met the Countess Teresa Guiccioli, wife of a big Romagnol landowner...
...better known as Leslie Charteris, bemonocled creator of Simon Templar, "The Saint." ∙∙ In Minneapolis 37-year-old Theodor Broch, ex-Mayor of Narvik, applied for U.S. citizenship. Under Nazi sentence of death he escaped from Norway in June 1940. ∙∙Home to the U.S. came Countess Jeanne von Bernstorff, 73-year-old widow of Germany's Ambassador to the U.S. in World War I. A U.S. citizen since 1939, when she made a quick trip to America to regain her citizenship after 52 years, she answered a reporter who asked whether she spoke English...
Into Manhattan's plushy La Rue restaurant went the ex-Countess Margot de la Falaise (exwife of Count Alain, brother of Marquis Henri, ex of Gloria Swanson. Constance Bennett), together with Dukie, her bulldog, Paul O. Buckley, her husband of three days, and four friends. Because Dukie was charged $3 for a dinner which she thought he didn't get, she slapped the proprietor's face and everybody ended up in Night Court. ∙∙Tobacco Road's longtime Jeeter Lester, James Barton, was arrested by the S.P.C.A. charged with letting nine of his dogs live...