Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Annie, Tanis & Loelia. In London, hostess-of-the-week was Anne (Annie) Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Viscountess Rothermere, energetic wife of the second Viscount (Daily Mail) Rothermere, who organized a "treasure hunt." This was a farewell gesture for some visiting friends-Howard and Tanis Dietz (she is the former Tanis Guinness, of the stout Guinnesses; he is MGM's publicity potentate who originated Leo the Lion). When Anne's Mayfairest guests rolled up (sixish) at the Rothermeres' Warwick House behind St. James's Palace, they found that no ordinary treasure hunt awaited them...
...treasure hunt proved hilarious but hot. Some of the less hardy couples dropped out to cool off with champagne. The rest raced through London from Warwick House to an empty house at No. 1 Cambridge Square to the Ritz to the Peter Pan statue in Kensington (the Rolls-Royces had trouble getting through those narrow lanes), doggedly following the far-flung clues that had been written (in verse) by Howard Dietz. Sample clue (leading to a book planted inside the empty house...
...Strategy of the Past Four Thousand Years. Because Tu was an only son, the old historian did not want him to be a soldier. But Tu ran away, entered Whampoa Military Academy, and graduated with the first class, in 1924. A vigorous sportsman in peacetime-he likes to hunt wild asses from horseback in the Gobi-Tu is also an accomplished paratrooper. He got his training from OSS experts training Commando troops in Kunming...
...Buck Hunt. Most of Billy's conscious running has always been in the direction of money. Says he: "I spent the first 40 years of my life in the buck hunt. There was nothing in the world but Billy Rose and he was going to get his. It's a tough street, I told myself, and you'd better learn how to count." With Billy, that has often meant counting other people...
Clara Bow, Billie Dove and Vilma Banky took bows in Hollywood when Body-Builder Terry Hunt complained in print: "It's not a pleasant word, but most . . . actresses . . . are too skinny." Clara and Billie and Vilma, recalled Hunt wistfully, "had well-filled faces with character. You could tell them apart...