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Baltimore-born Spinster Henrietta Szold, at 49, was heartbroken because a romance with a rabbinical scholar had come to an end. As balm, her mother suggested a trip to Gilead. What Zionist Szold saw in Palestine under Turkish rule in 1909 made her personal troubles seem trivial. In Jerusalem's Old City, she saw a child's trachoma-dimmed eyes covered with flies, and when she asked the mother why the flies were not brushed away, she was told: "They will only return...
Southern Exposure. The aristocracy still produces its rare blooms, such as Henrietta Tiarks, 1957's Debutante of the Year, and young Lady Beatty. But except for the consistently smart Duchess of Kent and the occasional piquancy of Princess Margaret, the royal family itself is too safe and sane to serve as popular fashion plates for Britain's enterprising young women. Instead they have turned to film stars. First, notes the British Harper's Bazaar, there were "the ubiquitous and slightly blurred carbons of Elizabeth Taylor ... Since then, passing through the [Audrey] Hepburn phase, we are now being...
Taking her first notice in her "My Day" column of Congressman-Son James's recent book, Affectionately, F.D.R., Eleanor Roosevelt took Jimmy gently to task for rapping onetime White House Housekeeper Henrietta Nesbitt. "Whatever Mrs. Nesbitt did," wrote Mrs. Roosevelt, "she did under my direction. I remember feeding everyone for a time on the same menus that had been worked out for people on relief in the days of the Depression . . . And I remember well the day when the author of this book, my son James, said to me pathetically at lunch: 'If I paid five cents extra...
...Life. What Clint Anderson sets out to do, he does with single-minded determination. A first-rate bridge player, he competed in the Grand National Championship matches of 1933 and 1934. A determined Rotarian, he was president of Rotary International in 1932-33. In Washington, he and his wife Henrietta (the Andersons have a married daughter and son, three grandchildren) avoid the canapé circuit, spend their evenings at home, reading from one of the nation's finest libraries on the history of the West...
Colorful Loyalty. The Cavaliers who fought for Charles I were gay, glamorous and morally unreliable. Charles Stuart was a double-dealing, handsome monarch, stoutly abetted by busy little Queen Henrietta Maria, who bore the lively title (created by herself) of "Her She Majesty Generalissima." Their outstanding general, Prince Rupert of the Rhine (Charles' nephew), combined style and audacity with grim efficiency. Parliamentarians denounced him as an ingrate; Royalists hailed him as ingenious, and his white dog was popularly ranked "Sergeant-Major-General Boy." Thus the Cavaliers held until the war's end a virtual monopoly of high spirits...