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...Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts (Knopf; $17.50) has two equally good apple tarts: one, with an apricot glaze, might belong on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table. The book's most celebrated item will undoubtedly be her French chocolate loaf cake, the result of "a lifelong search" for the recipe for a particular gateau sold at a French pastry shop in New York City...
...Maida Cooper San Diego
...comes The Savage Is Loose, which might most charitably be described as a fearless refutation of social Darwinism. The plot is Swiss Family Robinson with incest. John (Scott) and Maida (Trish Van Devere) are husband and wife who have been shipwrecked for seven years along a remote coast line. Their son David (Lee H. Montgomery) takes to the lovely surroundings with natural exuberance. He hunts and fishes, all under the tutelage of his father, while his mother fills his ears with memories of civilization...
...great and small affairs of the past were more likely to be quiet, settled, near-permanent arrangements. A new factor, says Daily Mail Columnist Anne Scott-James, is the "sleaziness of the crowd with which the War Minister mixed." Says Muggeridge: "Fifty years ago people would have gone to Maida Vale and patronized one of the grandes cocottes. If there is anything new in this, it is the overlapping of the social life of Cliveden and of Ward." In short, Britain may be in danger of abandoning Actress Mrs. Pat Campbell's celebrated axiom about Edwardian London...
...potatoes or the point of a razor-sharp shiv. Last week London's sensational penny press was black with scare headlines suggesting that gang warfare of a cruder type had come to The Smoke. Four men had pulled up in a car before a dingy boarding house in Maida Vale, crossed the sidewalk in broad daylight, entered the house and pumped lead into a sleazy race-track gambler. "Police believe," reported the conservative Daily Telegraph, "that the murder is gang war with the lid off . . . The razor and knuckle-duster gangs have turned to firearms." The Daily Sketch wondered...