Word: jocelyne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Explains Jocelyn Stevens, editor of the glossy fashion magazine, Queen: "Society smiles on all the up-and-coming money and enjoys it. but then withdraws into its own inner circle." In Stevens' world, the,socially important "ins" compromise brilliantly with the new-rich "outs." "Ascot, Lord's the Royal Academy, Henley are still very smart and as important as ever," and the ins cunningly let enough of the outs into Ascot at ten guineas a head to pay for the "necessary pomp and glamour...
...uppers, the thought was as repulsive as the word. Or, as Editor Jocelyn Stevens might put it: "Not while the ins are in, and the outs want...
...NAKED VILLANY (271 pp.)-Jocelyn Davey-Knopf...
...Ambrose Usher first bubbled into print, London critics hooted happily that the model for the talkative detective was obviously brilliant, pudgy Sir Isaiah Berlin, Oxford don, author (The Hedgehog and the Fox), cross-country conversationalist and, during World War II, a first secretary at the British embassy in Washington. Jocelyn Davey was a nom de plume, and there seemed good reason to suspect that Sir Isaiah might be Author Davey, as well as Hero Usher. To save a fellow Reform Club member from disrepute, the real author stepped forward: brilliant, pudgy Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who was at Oxford with...
...shickered up on Saturday night. He's chronic, that man, a bit of a bludger, and maybe even a tea leaf. He not only smoodges Smiley into some mauldy business with the abos, but before you know it, he's up to putty with the new schoolteacher (Jocelyn Hernfield)-now there's a basket of oranges!-whom he would obviously like to blackbird...