Word: gadabout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christine's sponsor was a social gadabout named Stephen Ward. 43, an artist and osteopath who lives in a Thames-side summer house on Viscount Astor's famed estate at Cliveden. "I know a lot of very important people and am often received in some of the most famous homes in the country," says Ward. "Sir Winston Churchill and many leading politicians have been among my patients; Prince Philip, the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Lord Snowdon have been among my sitters." Ward also had a genuine interest in young girls of humble origin. "I like pretty...
...looking up goggle-eyed, and one exclaiming: "For gosh sakes. here comes Mrs. Roosevelt." It was hilarious if only because it was so true: soon afterward Eleanor Roosevelt indeed descended into a coal mine. In those days she had not yet become controversial: to her critics she was a gadabout and do-gooder, to her admirers she was a dedicated friend of the oppressed, and to everyone, she was a marvel of omnipresent vitality. Later she aroused stronger passions; she was both hated and loved. But she outlived most of the controversy and became the world's most admired...
...life is enviable. She has left her rich but stuffy Roman mother and struck out on her own. Still attractive in her mid-30's she earns her living as a journalist, has her own little flat, a lover, and a fierce contempt for wealthy, married, gadabout women like her own sister...