Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...svelte Septuagenarian Marlene Dietrich, the show must go on, if not the preshow party. Shoving aside a waiting wheelchair at London's Heathrow Airport, the statuesque star hobbled into England last week, still feeling the effects of a leg injury suffered earlier this year. Princess Margaret ordered up a royal reception at Grosvenor House, where Dietrich was scheduled to make her first West End cabaret appearance in almost 20 years. Despite a guest list that included Director Franco Zeffirelli and Actor Christopher Lee, the evening's main attraction canceled out by phone. "I haven...
...women's division, after a couple of dazzling seasons in which it gained equal footing with the men's, has tamed down a bit. Margaret Court, last year's Forest Hills winner, stayed home in Australia because she recently gave birth to her second child. Superstar-Entrepreneur Billie Jean King has lately been in something of a slump. Thus much of the suspense settled on the question of whether Chris Evert could complete her rapid transit from crown princess to empress of the sport. Grass is not her favorite surface, though that did not stop her from...
ARNOLD BENNETT by MARGARET DRABBLE 396 pages. Knopf...
...worked in the fields or the potteries, their habits, routes and involuntary timetables. In his own life, even when he was a millionaire Edwardian novelist with a yacht and country houses, he wrote as many as 5,000 words virtually every day. The total result is practically incalculable. Margaret Drabble lists 84 "major" works-mostly novels and plays-but beyond that there are diaries, frivolities, criticism and endless journalism...
...downtown Atlanta, an abandoned Unitarian church has been converted into a dining place called the Abbey. The 70-year-old building-where Author Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind) was married-is graced with an elegant stained-glass front window, vaulted, beamed ceilings and a crafted Gothic interior. Though it might seem odd to some that Christians should go to a church for sole rather than soul, the Abbey has been serving capacity crowds. Most favored of its five dining areas: the choir loft, where monk-robed waiters Handel their guests with priestly concern...