Word: cronins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taken Aback. But in London last week a butler was shrilling secrets from the housetops. His name: Thomas Albert Cronin, 44. His former employer: Mr. Antony Armstrong-Jones, an ex-photographer and present husband of Princess Margaret. On a double-truck spread in the weekly People, Cronin poured out the reasons he left his royal job after only 25 days at Tony and Meg's Kensington Palace residence. With butlerian unctuousness, Cronin declares that the exposé is for him "a painful task" but necessary to preserve the "dignity of the royal family and my own reputation...
...Cronin first met young Armstrong-Jones in 1958 when Cronin was buttling for U.S. Ambassador "Jock" Whitney, and Armstrong-Jones arrived to take some photographs. "I will say at once," wrote Cronin, clearly in the grip of a remembered passion, "that I was taken aback by Mr. Jones's manner of dress. His coat, if memory serves me, was of leather, and unbuttoned; his trousers much too tight, and of an eccentric material." Cronin confesses that "I betrayed my disapproval on my face and in the unenthusiastic way I announced him to the Ambassador...
...like to see cranes knocking down buildings, you can do so almost anywhere across the river. (Admittedly, you can see the same thing at the site of the new Harvard Health Center, but unless you are sentimental about what Cronin's used to be, you are unlikely to find it so interesting...
...Cronin's The Citadel (ABC) was superbly acted by James Donald and Hugh Griffith, retelling the story of an English physician whose Hippocratical beginnings disappear in a hypocritical practice on London's fashionable Harley Street. If the play suffered from an excess of blood sugar, Dr. Cronin's professional authenticity more than compensated. No one could write Medic so well...
Tensely real, tensely heroic, Casablanca is a movie made without cynicism. It spins a story and a mood so involved and so real that on the way home, Mount Auburn Street looks cold and crooked and there is the suspicion that back of Cronin's, Bogie is smoking another cigarette and waiting...