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...NOTEBOOKS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Ralph Maud. 364 pages. New Directions...
...entries culled by Editor Maud show clearly the developing poet. He was only 15 when he started the first of the four notebooks he sold to the Lockwood, under 20 when he made the last entry in them, but from the very first they reflect both a fierce doubt about the worth of life and a fierce enthusiasm for it. "We are too beautiful to die," wrote the doubting adolescent, and soon he was noting that the beautiful die young (Thomas himself...
...Rome as he was about to set off for Seville, said stiffly: "It is the duty of a gentleman not to reply to such questions." In London, Jackie's mother, Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, chimed in, calling the rumors "rubbish," and even the former Kennedy White House nanny, Maud Shaw (see BOOKS), got into the act. "I often told Mrs. Kennedy she should think of remarrying," Maud said. "But she would look at me so distressed and say, 'Oh, Miss Shaw, I just couldn't ever...
WHITE HOUSE NANNIE: MY YEARS WITH CAROLINE AND JOHN KENNEDY JR. by Maud Shaw. 205 pages. New American Library...
...experiences are better kept to myself," declared English-born Maud Shaw when she left the service of the Kennedy family last summer. Unsurprisingly, she has changed her mind. Her little trickle into the flood of Kennediana includes some nursery-level characterizations of the children (John is "the clown . . . a natural comic," while Caroline, like her mother, is "the quieter, more reserved of the two, slow to make friends") and a few intriguing anecdotes. There was, for example, the time when Caroline first became aware of people's color. Once she noticed that she was turning brown...