Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. Daniel B. Brewster, 43, Democratic U.S. Senator from Maryland; by Carol Leiper Brewster, 50, Baltimore socialite and notable cam paign asset to her husband; by mutual consent; after twelve years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico. This week Brewster plans to marry Anne Bullitt Biddle, daughter of the late Ambassador William C. Bullitt, and divorced wife of Nicholas Biddle...
...BORROW YOUR HUSBAND? & OTHER COMEDIES OF THE SEXUAL LIFE by Graham Greene. 183 pages. Viking Press...
...short stories is basically a tee-off from the second green, down-to-earth escapist fare. But it must not be dismissed too lightly. The mature Greene is never a mere Sunday writer; there is always an element of earnestness about his game. And in May We Borrow Your Husband?, he is still the consummate pro: his picture swing is smooth, his stroke is completely unmannered yet perfectly controlled, his style is at once artful and impeccable. Yet beneath all the skill lurks an unprofessional but engaging note of bittersweet poignancy...
...story concerns the observations of an aging writer at an Antibes hotel. He is a kind of latter-day Maugham, who is taken with a gangly Georgy girl honeymooning with her "very sensitive" husband. A pair of prattling pederasts are taken in turn with the husband, and the writer watches with quiet horror as they gaily go about seducing the young husband-even using the writer's own harmless affection for the girl as a cover. The writer at length bows out. "If [the husband] has the wrong hormones," he wistfully but urbanely muses, "I have the wrong...
...runs away with the book. Much of the story is told through his letters home. They all tell the same facts, but each is satanically slanted to fit in with the several views of him self that Patrick wants to cultivate: the dutiful son, the weak but loving husband, the homosexual friend in power. The letters also give Isherwood a chance to poke fun at Olde England in parodies ("This brassy tea, this wooden toast, these chalk-white scrambled eggs as dry as leather...