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...ever idealism played a role in espionage, people like Pollard, Ames and Nicholson killed it. Newcomers to the game who want romance will have to find it in the novels of Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carre. Those chaps knew their craft: they were all successful spies...
...Thurber what it was like to be blind. Thurber replied, "It's better now. For a long while, images of Herbert Hoover were the only thing that kept popping up in front of me." He got to know Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Lena Horne, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Somerset Maugham, Danny Kaye, Humphrey Bogart. At Buchwald's wedding to Ann McGarry in 1952, Gene Kelly danced with the bride and Rosemary Clooney toasted the groom...
...first. The travel industry cherishes Piety 1. The traveler drifts through the world trying to fend off the truth of Piety 2, which declares itself in spasms of denied disappointment. At worst, a nostalgic heartache goes to work, the travel snob's regret, grandchild of an Evelyn Waugh-Somerset Maugham steamship elitism. Lucretius wrote: "Whenever a thing changes and alters its nature, at that moment comes the death of what it was before." A new metaphysic of distances and destinations has taken over the world...
DIED. JEROME ZIPKIN, 80, social moth; in Manhattan. Loyal, insulting -- often to the same people -- Jerry Zipkin served for half a century as party guest, escort and confidant of socially prominent, financially comfortable women (Betsy Bloomingdale, Pat Buckley). In the '30s his friend Somerset Maugham modeled the snobbish Elliot Templeton of The Razor's Edge on the fashion-obsessed real estate heir. But Zipkin's greatest coup was his relationship with Nancy Reagan. He was with the First Family on the night they captured that title; in the following years, Mrs. Reagan dished and danced with Zipkin so regularly that...
...received the Somerset Maugham award in1954, the Prix Medici in 1976 and the ShakespearePrize in 1982. Lessing lives in London...