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Acidulous Society Author Cleveland (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts) Amory, 38, scudded into Manhattan after a voyage from England, licking psychic wounds that he picked up in a five-month running battle of wills with the redoubtable Duchess of Windsor. Hostilities loomed the very moment the duchess hired Amory to carry on the ghosting of her autobiography, a meandering treatise on which three years had already been spent. Amory summed...
...make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." The duchess, lamented Ghost Amory, tried to impose worrisome conditions of servitude upon him. He was supposed to prove that 1) B. (for Bessie) Wallis Warfield was born "on the right side of the tracks" in Baltimore, 2) she and the duke are "happy and busy people," 3) Britain's royal family and common folks treated her "very meanly" in disallowing her the title of Her Royal Highness. Said Amory: "I told the duchess I didn't mind omitting facts, but . . . I wouldn't distort them...
While Amory was speaking his piece in Manhattan, the duke's secretary in London issued a stiff-upper-lipped statement: "Mr. Cleveland Amory . . . has now given all the assistance the duchess felt was of value, and his employment has therefore been terminated." Next day, when Amory's lament was gleefully spread by London's anti-Wally press, the duke's secretary announced less politely: "The Duchess of Windsor wishes it to be known that it was on the unanimous recommendation of the three publishers of her memoirs-namely [New York's] David McKay Co., McCall...
...graphic art of Goya seems to transcend the limits of style and arrive at an absolute. The parallel is interesting because both men produced their greatest works shut off from the world of sound. Misfortune no doubt seemed endless in Goya's case: he lost his famous mistress, the Duchess of Alba, soon after he lost his hearing. But in spite of the compounded misfortunes, there was some compensation. It was just about this time that he was really finding himself as an artist. His etchings follow the last developments, describing the concerns and compositional techniques of his full genius...
...Carboy's groom, Nell Groody, also joins. Then Author Costain relentlessly chronicles the lives of these participants, down to the tonteeniest detail. Carboy's daughter works her way through a series of polite flirtations (not a bedroom scene in 930 pages) from baronet's wife to duchess, while Grace's son parlays a naval career into a knighthood. After much 19th century history drifts by like a Bristol fog, Carboy's great-grandson and Grace's great-grand-bastard reconstitute the old partnership. In the end, of course, it is Nell, the groom...