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Personality: Quick, remote, dilettanteish, easily bored and chronically unpunctual. Has the clipped, chilled voice of many girls of her class. Says one friend: "She constantly surprised you-often she was very businesslike; at other times, she seemed to be wandering through life like a beautiful dream." Designs her own dresses but has them made up by a "little woman around the corner," loves rose gardening (as does Eden), but dislikes sport, refuses to cook or keep house. "A person of decided views and individual tastes," said an Oxford don who knows her well. "Always a firsthand person." Women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CLARISSA CHURCHILL EDEN | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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