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...ISHBEL ROSS 349 pages. Harper...
Rebel Rose, by Ishbel Ross (Harper; $4), tells the fascinating story of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a Maryland beauty whose charm helped her into highest Washington society, and whose Dixie devotion landed her in jail as a Confederate spy. Her political mentor was Calhoun. "Wild Rose" picked up such valuable information that President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee expressed their thanks to her. But Allan Pinkerton, head of the Chicago detective agency, finally caught her with some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand...
...couple still at Hampstead Town Hall where the marriage had taken place. Of the bride's family, only a younger sister Sheila had attended. Brother Malcolm was too busy in his office as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. A quiet ceremony had been decided upon, explained Ishbel, because of the recent death of her father (TIME, Nov. 22). "I'm not going to tell you about the honeymoon. I shall not say whether we are going to the Plow tonight," smiled the new Mrs. Ridgley coyly. Shy Mr. Ridgley, who listed himself on the marriage register...
When her father left No. 10 Downing Street, Ishbel decided to employ her servants in the 17th-Century inn at Speen. Hard by Chequers, country home of Britain's Prime Ministers, the Plow became a stopping place for tourists who came to see the former hostess of No. 10 handing out half pints in the pub. She employed Ridgley, dubbed "Tinker" by his cronies, as her gardener, started village tongues to wagging when she drove about the countryside with him last summer. Drummer in the village band, Tinker gained further favor because he was Speen's ace darts...
...simple, tweedy Ishbel is one of the close friends of Their Majesties King George & Queen Elizabeth, and occasionally drives up to London to dine in Buckingham Palace...