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Worries about the collapse of a "gentleman's agreement...
...militants occupying the U.S. embassy and the three at the Foreign Ministry. A United Nations commission, named to study allegations against the deposed Shah and his regime, began hearing witnesses in the Iranian capital. In approving the commission, the U.S. had assumed that Iran, as its part of a "gentleman's agreement," would arrange for early release of the Americans...
...asked to say so in writing, he denied that there was any connection at all between the U.N. hearings and the release of the hostages. Some optimistic officials in Washington and at the U.N. insisted that such a package was still being worked on-it is "a gentleman's agreement," said one of the U.N. envoys -and that Banisadr had to sound tough because he still lacks control over the young militants who hold the hostages. Said Waldheim, in his office during an interview with TIME last Friday: "I am confident that we shall find a solution, though nobody...
Beaton dines with Oscar Wilde's son, who tells him that when his father was disgraced, society was so outraged that even dogs called Oscar were renamed. He is with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor just before their wedding, and notes how hurt and surprised that naive gentleman was that so few of his friends had accepted invitations. He describes his rather comical romance with Greta Garbo, in which both of them circled like brilliant birds, not wanting to muss their pretty plumage with what would inevitably be a messy embrace...
Incredible as it seems, at 50, with four decades of performing behind him, Rubinstein had yet to catch on in the U.S. Then he signs with a "fat and important-looking middle-aged gentleman" named Sol Hurok, and soon America too is at his feet. When World War II drives him from his Paris home, he settles for a few years in Hollywood. There he earns huge fees for dubbing the sound track of films like Song of Love, buys a Cadillac and plunges into the party circuit with such elegant cronies as Charlie Chaplin, Thomas Mann and Marlene Dietrich...