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...Happiest Millionaire was Philadelphia's Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (1874-1948). Kyle Crichton, who helped write My Philadelphia Father with Biddle's daughter Cordelia, has rerouted the biography for the stage. Certainly this most redblooded of bluebloods, most warm-hearted of hotheads, most brotherly-loving of eccentrics-who turned teetotaler and collected alligators, boxed with professionals and gave a voice recital without having a voice-cried out to be a stage character. The stage problem, plainly enough, was to give some sort of connection to Father's disconnected crazes and sudden whims; the stage difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Having lived in Europe for the past eighteen months I am prepared to duck from June until September as the thundering herd of tourists (probably quite a few as a result of your article) sweeps through Europe this summer. JAMES M. KYLE Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. c/o Postmaster New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...other jealous husbands, both subsequently divorced, admitted that they had subscribed to Broady's service to spy on their wives (TV Songstress Kyle Mac-Donnell and Glamour Girl Tauni de Les-seps), but both counts were thrown out of court, because in New York State it is legal for a client to have his own phone tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Line Was Very Busy | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...PHILADELPHIA FATHER (256 pp.)-Cordelia Drexel Biddle, as told to Kyle Crichfon-Doubleday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Scrapple | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...served as Truman's envoy to El Salvador, the youngest ambassador in U.S. history (36 when he was appointed). Though Biddies still proliferate in Philadelphia's social register, Cordelia has switched from the Main Line to Manhattan. The result is that My Philadelphia Father, "as told to" Kyle Crichton,* reads like ripsnorting, Bull Moosish commotion recollected in the comparative tranquillity of a Park Avenue penthouse party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Scrapple | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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