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PRINCESS MARGARET by Nigel Dempster Macmillan; 242 pages...
According to Nigel Dempster's keyhole narrative, the figurehead has lived "a life unfulfilled." Whether she might have been happier as Prime Minister or nanny is unspecified; certainly she could have had a more gratifying Boswell. Dempster, 40, is a gossip columnist for the London Daily Mail, and throughout, if Margaret is the Disappointed Princess, he is the Old Pretender, stating the loftiest intentions, then betraying them with yet another innuendo...
According to Dempster, Margaret's life thereafter was marked with irony and marred by men. Antony Armstrong-Jones appears as the villainous Earl of Snowdon, vulpine photographer and "failed architect." Though the couple's early years are, in Dempster's terse account, full of "sex, sex, sex," the earl is all too soon observed spending more time in boudoirs than in darkrooms. When the lonely princess and mother of two takes up with an eligible aristocrat, Roddy Llewellyn, the earl appears on television. There, playing the crocodile cuckold, he tearfully begs indulgence for Princess Margaret...
...Atlanta last week dread turned to relief for a change when two young black boys, each missing for about 24 hours, were found unharmed. Termal Heard, 14, was located at a friend's house, where he had spent the night without telling his mother. Dempster Williams, 10, was discovered at a gym on the city's southwest side after running away from home. The boy told the police his mother had beaten him with an extension cord for breaking a lamp...
...roaders see bonanzas at the ends of both highways. Despite the caution of Alaska state officials, the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce believes that the Haul Road could be bustling with so much traffic by 1985 that it will steer an extra $15 million a year into their city. The Dempster's boosters see one certain payoff. No longer will residents of Inuvik and the outlying Mackenzie Delta, where oil exploration is now being expanded, need to import most of their food, fuel, clothing, machinery and other supplies by expensive airfreight...