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...duchess. In the absence of a male heir to the first duke-whose only son died of smallpox in 1703-an act of Parliament permitted the dukedom to pass in the female line. His daughter Henrietta (1681-1733) succeeded him as second Duchess, became a great and good friend of Playwright William Congreve...
Things began on Friday afternoon, when a friend in Harvard's administrative hierarchy slipped him the word that he didn't get into Eliot House. For Mansley--the Montebank clan's silver-spoon-fed youngest generation (St. Mark's and BUtterfield 8)--it was a deliberate slur on his urbanity. Shaken and embittered and haunted by the persistent spectre of anachronism, Mansley did something a Montebank would never do; he went to the ISA Fair...
Last week the Trib's pressagent, Tex McCrary of TV-radio fame, admitted that at its present rate the Trib stood to lose $1,000,000 in the fiscal year ending in July 1959, conceded that Jock Whitney, his wartime friend and peacetime neighbor (Manhasset, L.I.), was considering taking over controlling interest in the Trib as a price for his help...
...during World War II, is now foreign manager of the proper Sunday Times. He is married to the former Lady Rothermere, whose press-lord husband named him as corespondent in a divorce suit in 1952. At Goldeneye, his luxurious Jamaica residence, Clubman Fleming has been host to his convalescing friend, Sir Anthony Eden. His critics find his shockers all the more unspeakable because he is so much a member of The Establishment.* Yet Fleming is no Spillane. His closest U.S. opposite number, Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler calls him "masterly." And Novelist Elizabeth Bowen says: "Here's magnificent writing...
Class Day that year, one observer reported, "had all the pomp and pageantry, the charm and beauty, the youth and color that has marked the occasion down through the sweep of the years. For Harvard was about to part with an old friend. It appeared difficult for the gathering to realize that Dr. Lowell wouldn't be with them on the class days to come, and they didn't seem to like...