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LETTER FROM GROSVENOR SQUARE (279 pp.)-John Gilbert Winant-Houghton Mifflin...
After his retirement, ten months ago, Winant went back to his house in Concord, devoted himself to writing his wartime memoirs, Letter from Grosvenor Square, about to be released by Houghton Mifflin. In recent weeks his friends had begun to worry a little about him-he showed signs of deep fatigue. But they did not guess how 58-year-old Gil Winant would end it. One night this week he shut himself in an upstairs room of the Concord house, shot himself through the temple with a .32-caliber pistol...
...psychologically unsound position of being at the receiving end of countless gifts, ranging from individual parcels to the US Loan. Not to be overlooked either as catalysts in forming this conscious or unconscious attitude are the American views toward Palestine and the sight of new Buicks and Packards in Grosvenor Square...
...Majesty Queen Mary," said the exhibition catalogue, "may be regarded by collectors as their Patron Saint and the Great Hall at Grosvenor House as their temple." The Queen Mother was sponsoring Britain's first Antique Dealers' Fair since 1938. And Queen Elizabeth had sent along four fine old tureens-in the form of a cabbage, a melon, a lemon, and a bunch of asparagus-to crown the show...
...England's new age of plain, distressingly modern "austerity" furniture and china, Grosvenor-goers crowded long and lovingly around the polished fruits of Britain's gayer days. All of the exhibits were made prior to 1830 (the official criterion of antiques), and most were British-made, although there were also spoils of the age when Britons were the world's wealthiest, most avid and widely traveled souvenir-hunters...