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...think again. The Lame Duck Bookstore, specializing in rare books and manuscripts, recently sold a first edition copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s provocative masterpiece to a bookseller in London for $50,000. The book is inscribed with an illustration of a butterfly and is addressed to George Hessen, Nabokov’s closest friend. “It was common for Nabokov to draw butterflies in inscribed copies of his books for those close to him,” said Nabokov scholar Professor Leland de la Durantaye, the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English. John W. Wronoski...
...what would have been his 70th birthday. (RCA is rereleasing all of Elvis' U.K. No. 1 hits.) The celebration is also taking place in Germany, where Bonn's Haus der Geschichte has mounted a show about Elvis' 1958-60 tour of duty as a U.S. soldier in the Hessen town of Friedberg . Some 300 items will be on display through Feb. 27, from Presley's scuffed Army jacket (filched by a fan from his Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits...
Trott decided at first to pursue a legal career, and his work in German courts was another source of misgivings among his friends. During his time in a provincial court in 1934, the Manchester Guardian published a series of articles detailing the persecution of Jews in Trott's native Hessen. Trott wrote an angry letter to the Guardian, denying that the courts were anti-Jewish. Although his assertions proceeded from a sincere attempt to explain that not all Germans were anti-Semitic, many in England interpreted the letter as a sign of sympathy for the Nazis' aims...
Meanwhile, in perhaps the most intriguing development so far, a woman placed an obituary in the Aug. 24 edition of the London Times. The notice: "Von Hessen. On August 21st at Penzance, Cornwall. Timothy, Mark and James. Dearly beloved sons of Margarita Countess Von Hessen and the late Count Richardt. Funeral service to be held in Germany. Donation to the NSPCC (the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)." Suspicious of the ad, the Times checked and found that no such deaths had been reported in Penzance and that Princess Margaret of Hesse, 72, who happened...
...Prince Philip and his daughter. Princess Anne, 12, clambered out of their raspberry-pink royal plane at Frankfurt last week, there were no top hatted officials to welcome them or respectful crowds cheering "Es lebe hock!" After greeting their waiting cousins, Prince Ludwig and Princess Margaret von Hessen, Philip and Anne got quickly into the rakish Alvis sports coupe, which had been flown ahead of the royal party from London. Then they headed down the Autobahn to Darmstadt, where they stayed at the Von null palatial 18th century Schloss Wolfsgarten...