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Nobody can fault her story for lack of plot. After Spain, Decca married her lover, Esmond Romilly. They came to the U.S. She conceived his child, Constancia, nicknamed Dinky, before he returned to Europe with the Canadian Royal Air Force and died in action in 1941. Despite that tragedy, Decca tells, with a nice sense of wartime humor, of her duty on the Washington front in the Office of Price Administration. At last it is the moment for the slap in the face of the British Empire-the really big Mitford-sister gesture. After moving to California, marrying a brilliant...
...question from Professor Esmond Wright!" Ritcheson declared. Silence descended. Heads turned toward the celebrated director of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London, an authority on the loyalists during the Revolution, and still known for his outspoken Tory stands as a former member of Parliament...
...Diana lived it up with Adolf Hitler. Eldest Sister Nancy became one of London's "gay young things" immortalized by Novelist Evelyn Waugh, then started writing successful books herself (Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire in Love). At 19, Jessica eloped to Spain with Winston Churchill's leftist nephew, Esmond Romilly (who was later killed in World War II). Her outraged father persuaded Foreign Minister Anthony Eden to dispatch a destroyer to bring her home, but Jessica resisted the captain's effort to lure her aboard...
...holders. Now he has devised a way to run the machines without a blood pump. Kolff's machines are in the $400 to $700 price range. Another excellent model, now being used at home by about 150 patients, was developed by the University of Maryland's Dr. William G. Esmond. It costs about $600, a far cry from the $7,000 price tag for some standard hospital models...
...Evening News, Daily Sketch), and Lady Rothermere, 36, Texas heiress and niece of Dallas Oil Magnate Clint Murchison: their first child (he has a son, heir to the peerage, and two daughters by his first marriage; she has six sons by her prior marriage), a boy; in London. Name: Esmond Vyvyan...