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Fast in the wake of John F. Kennedy: Man of the Sea and not so far behind the memoirs of Artie Schlesinger and Ted Sorensen comes yet another, My Life with Caroline and John-John, the chatty monologue of Maud Shaw, who was the Kennedys' faithful English nanny for seven years. She retired last spring, vowing that "my experiences are better kept to myself," but soon changed her mind. Despite "discreet" objections by Jacqueline Kennedy, her recollections began in the December Ladies' Home Journal. There are some homey anecdotes, such as the one about President Kennedy asking...
...just told them I'm going away for the summer. They'd be too upset if I said I wasn't coming back." On that note, lifelong British Nanny Maud Shaw, 59, who has tended Jacqueline Kennedy's children since Caroline was eleven days old, announced that she was retiring to the countryside. Jackie, staying on in London after helping dedicate the Runnymede memorial to her late husband, put an ad in the papers for an "extremely reliable and competent young woman, 25-35, to look after girl of seven and boy four in New York...
MacBride's father led the Irish brigade that fought against the British in the Boer War, was later executed by the British for his part in Ireland's famous Easter Rising of 1916. MacBride's mother was the legendary Maud Gonne, heroine of Ireland's revolt and of Poet W. B. Yeats, who called her "a phoenix in my youth." MacBride spent his own youth bombing British armored cars, commanded the outlaw Irish Republican Army while studying and practicing law in the 1930s. A top Dublin barrister, he later became Ireland's Minister of External...
Little Club says his business is off 35% since January, and "I've added 20% to the unemployment problem since Caplin with his little guillotine." The Colony has cut ten men from its 100-man staff; Maud Chez Elle has cut its staff from 40 to 34 to help compensate for a close to 50% drop in business. "If business doesn't pick up soon," says Vincent Sardi Jr.. owner of Manhattan's Sardi's and Sardi's East, "all of us will be in real trouble...
...blunt redhead with a lifelong fascination for fire engines. He began playing the horses when he was 14, later joined a Wall Street firm that specialized in railroad bonds, was one of the first to make a fortune out of the sale of public utility securities. His wife Maud had a passion for art that proved contagious. "She had the knowledge.'' Dale said. "I had the acquisitiveness.'' And that was how the great collection began...