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...George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of the King & Queen. The younger son is Sacheverell, amateur of baroque art, and biographer of Franz Liszt...
...Little Sitwells. That childhood was so sheltered, so beset with nurses, governesses, tutors and eccentric relatives, that it is no wonder the three little Sitwells, grown up, confuse heredity-"that fragile scarlet tree we all carry within us"-with an extraordinary environment. Edith as a girl was hung with corrective clamps and braces, including a nose-shaper, and was forced to swing herself dizzy on rings and parallel bars...
Sousa on the Stomach. Sacheverell looked, says his brother, much as Henry VIII must have looked as a child: "broad face, green eyes and tawny hair." Edith was already "gothic" in aspect, gawky, nervous, dressed in expensive but "disfiguring" garments. She was nagged eternally by her mother, who was "always cruelly finding fault with her in front of other people." At 14 Edith's sensibilities had become so acute that she vomited on hearing John Philip Sousa conduct his brass band in London's Albert Hall...
...Edith Summerskill, chief delegate for the United Kingdom, summed up the difficulty: "There is no pressure group for the hungry-they are unorganized." Organized or not, the hungry were a potent political factor. "Famine," said Sir John, "is the greatest politician of all." Ernest Bevin put it more bluntly in London: "Naziism cannot exist, Communism cannot exist, if you remove from the world want and starvation...
...Best Teacher of 1946" is greying Mrs. Edith Creed Binker, 42, wife of an insurance man. Says she: "I'm just an ordinary teacher who got in a rut 22 years ago and has been polishing the groove ever since...