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...During her stint in London, Wintour's husband David Shaffer, a prominent child psychiatrist, remained in New York City; the company paid for regular Concorde flights so they could visit each other. And some say Newhouse launched Traveler, Conde Nast's newest magazine, so that Brown's husband Editor Harold Evans would have something to do in New York...
...ability, desire or guts to intervene." Denouncing the sentences as "totally inappropriate," Defense Attorney Kim Otis claimed that his clients, Kenneth Simpler, 20, and Lisa Napolitano, 21, the president and social chairman of the Princeton Charter Club, had been unfairly singled out as scapegoats. Princeton's President Harold Shapiro, while condemning the drinking incident, also criticized what he called "disproportionate and excessive" sentences...
...mingled awe and envy." To amuse these friends, he invented a game called International Daisy Chain, in which the point -- "SO educational," he insisted -- was to connect improbable people through a linkage of sexual affairs. Henry James to Ida Lupino, for instance, went "Henry James to Hugh Walpole to Harold Nicolson to the Hon. David Herbert to John C. Wilson to Noel Coward to Louis Hayward to Ida Lupino." Or so Capote said...
...detected, cost Philby a shot at the top job in the British Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, and could have cost him a good deal more. Yet despite two secret trials and a 1955 accusation on the floor of Parliament -- an incident that ironically led Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan to proclaim him cleared of disloyalty -- Philby was allowed to go on working for MI6. Until he defected, he free- lanced for the service, which also helped him find employment as a journalist. In an interview last January with British Journalist Phillip Knightley, Philby claimed that his departure was engineered...
Philby, born Harold Adrian Russell, was the only son of St. John Philby, a British civil servant who sided with the colonies rather than the empire and became an adviser to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Harold was born in India, and in childhood acquired the lasting nickname of Kim, the courageous boy spy in Rudyard Kipling's tale. He attended his father's schools, Westminster and Cambridge. Philby met Burgess, Maclean and Blunt at Cambridge but insisted that they were not recruited there. In Vienna, where he lived after graduation, he joined a Communist cell and was assigned...