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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest in a series of tattle tales about royal family life to appear in London's popular press, ranging from the governess' gabble of the 1950 The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford, to the more recent manly sacrifices of Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret's boy friend, as told by his friend, Norman Barrymaine...
Turning guest for a change, chirrupy Washington Hostess Perle Mesta showed up towing a "friend from Newport," Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt, at a convivial "victory"' party honoring the new Congress, was soon chuckling brow-to-brow with the first Democratic table-hopper to arrive for the jollity. Rhode Island's venerable (91) Senator Theodore F. Green...
Tiny Ted Atkinson was 20 years old and making little progress as a $35-a-week shipping clerk in a Brooklyn chemical plant when a truck driver friend suggested that his build (5 ft. 2 in., 100 Ibs.) was ideal for a jockey. Ted got a job with the Whitneys' Greentree Stable as a stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride...
Between World Wars I and II, Mary Clarke lived in Europe, told friends she did so because costs there were low. "She always gave you the impression that she had to be very careful with money," says a friend. It is Smith's good fortune that Alumna Clarke was careful-and that at Smith something happened to the quiet, 20-year-old college girl, memorable enough to stay bright for seven decades...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Holly Golightly gets stuck with a no-carat man every time...