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...dinner party 30 years ago, Somerset Maugham turned to his hostess and, in one of his rare pronouncements on writers and writing, remarked that the future of English literature was in the hands of a handsome young man across the room, Christopher Isherwood. Not long afterward Isherwood abdicated; in 1936, he emigrated to California and left much of his creative vitality in England. Apparently only Irish expatriates write better when they leave their native land...
...weren't enough to tear around Paris as the virtual director of Designer Pierre Cardin's fashion house while maintaining her reputation as the town's most dazzling hostess, Nicole Alphand, 49, is now hard at work becoming a lady of letters. Like practically everyone else who knew the Kennedys, she is writing a book. Actually, says Nicole, the tome will be more than a Kennedy reminiscence; it will record all the eight years she and her husband Hervé spent brightening up Washington's social scene when he was the French ambassador there. Now that...
...Rivera, 62, and executed with the aid of fellow New York Abstractionist Roy Gussow, 48. In terms of institutional oneupmanship, the work gives the Smithsonian the distinction of placing the first abstract sculpture on the capital's Mall, which will eventually be blooming with them: Hostess Gwen Cafritz is donating an Alexander Calder stabile-mobile that will be installed in midsummer, while the Hirschhorn Collection is planning to install a whole garden full of modern works from Rodin to George Rickey...
...reads them a leisurely bedtime story, puts a diaper on the baby, and tucks them both in bed. Weekends she sees the children all she can, but arranges to spend a few hours by the pool or work in a round of trapshooting. She is a charming though infrequent hostess, and the nanny and the secretary love her dearly...
Born. To Sukarno, 65, beleaguered President of Indonesia, and Ratna Sari Dewi, 27, onetime Japanese nightclub hostess: their first child, a girl (he has seven children by five previous wives); in Tokyo. Name: Kartika Sari, meaning essence of the stars...