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Everyone seemed to agree that this time old H. G. had really put his foot in his gabby mouth. Snorted Mosley: "Absolute nonsense." The Keeper of the Privy Purse (treasurer to the King) thought it "most amusing." Most Britons ignored it; H. G. Wells simply did not understand a king who was neither tyrant nor snob, who merely served his people as a symbol of their past, their pride and their good manners...
Mabel Dodge Luhan, arty salon keeper and tireless tell-all (Intimate Memories, et al.), broke out in glittery Town & Country: "I am going to tell you some things about grandmothers. I am one. . . . Their day is over. . . . Nobody wants them. . . . What are they to do?" Simple: they should "love more rather than less as time goes on . . . It is a solution for me, so why cannot it be for others . . . ? I am having a fine time loving people. . . . Sexagenarian Luhan has been married four times-currently to Taos Indian Tony Luhan...
More than one returning serviceman has come back to find himself his brother's keeper or vice versa. CRIMSON presidents have barked at candidates who used to be their topkicks, proctors and even deans have cautioned former class-mates, but not many of these relationships are likely to cause as much stir as the one involving Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'38, recently appointed associate professor of History, and recipient of several noteworthy kudos, including a Pulitzor Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship...
Occasionally bees are obstinate. Then the keeper selects a hive containing many adolescent, more adaptable bees. At that age, they can always...
...keeper of Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum knew just what he wanted: $7,500,000. Last week the Met's chubby Director Francis Henry Taylor set out to get it. To open the Met's Diamond Jubilee building campaign (the Museum will be 75 next February), Taylor persuaded General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower to come to Manhattan to receive an honorary life fellowship in the Museum, because "through [his] wisdom and foresight many irreplaceable art treasures were saved...