Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mazo lives with her longtime friend, small, blond Caroline Clement. In the early '20s, before the Jalna series started, Caroline (whom Mazo calls "sister") was an Ontario civil servant. Her earnings helped tide Mazo over the years when her first three novels made no money...
...Catholic Argentina this was a sensation; gossip soon whispered that Peron, had asked his good friend Cardinal Copello, as a favor, to get rid of Dunphy. The Cardinal visited Dunphy at his church last fall and suggested-"very suavely," says Father Dunphy-that he ought to resign. Just before Christmas, police held the priest for eight hours while they tried to make him admit authorship of an anonymous pamphlet called "Liberty," "I am in accord with what it says," Dunphy assured them, "but it is not in my style, and I did not write...
...like old times for the oldtimers vacationing on the Riviera. The Duke of Windsor stepped out for a wind-and-rainswept game of golf with his old friend, Belgium's exiled King Leopold (see cut)^; later on, some of the old gang dropped in for dinner at the Windsors. Winston Churchill came with his wife and daughter Sarah; Leopold came with wife Princess de Rethy, son Prince Baudouin and daughter Princess Joséphine Charlotte. Rounding out the party: Rumania's ex-King Michael and wife Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
...holds consultations until late in the day. Ten years ago he laid down his scalpel, but he still watches operations, and he likes to show that his hand is still tremor-free. He still smokes ten cigars a day, and snaps off his hearing aid when ever a physician friend needles him to cut down...
...thought of Chicago's climate bothered him, for one thing: "I'm afraid the wind would make me nervous." He was even more worried about Chicago's hospitality. Explained an intimate friend: "The maestro . . . fears he may be unwelcome because he was appointed first musician of the Reich by Hitler, although he has [since] been cleared by the denazification courts . . ." But Furtwangler was told there was "no need to worry." In Vienna, the gaunt, 62-year-old conductor announced the deal himself: he would conduct for eight weeks at a sum neither he nor Chicago would reveal...