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Self-assured and suave, Capa was equally at home in the salons of Mayfair or in the waterfront saloons of Marseille. But it was on the battlefronts of World War II that Photographer Capa cut a commanding figure. Once with the 82nd Airborne Division, an admiring paratrooper who was preparing to jump turned to Capa and said seriously: "I don't like your job, pal. It's too dangerous." Near Bastogne, Capa got in front of an advancing U.S. column and was "captured" by G.I.s, suspicious of his thickly accented English. (He was freed after showing his photographer...
...student was Sydney Courtauld, only daughter of the late textile millionaire and art collector Samuel Courtauld. Dark, handsome, intensely -interested in politics, she was attracted by Rab's intelligence and drive. In 1926 they were married. His wife brought Rab wealth, entree into the famous Tory homes of Mayfair, and, eventually, a constituency-Saffron Walden in Essex County, where Courtauld had a country house in which the Butlers now live. From there, in 1929, Rab was elected to Parliament...
...dues of $300 a year and minimum American plan rate of $50 a day are only the low hurdles. The applicant must also pass the scrutiny of the board of governors: Wenner-Gren, the Hon. Mrs. Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, Eunice, Lady Oakes, Sir Oswald Bancroft and seven other Mayfair and Florida social arbiters. If he gets by without a blackball, and would like to settle on the island, the new member may then sign up for a homesite-at $10,000 an acre...
Eddie Chapman is a gay dog. International society intellectuals like Director John Huston admire his mind, and blondes his wire-and-whipcord body. He can keep a pub in fits of laughter or a softly lit drawing room at hushed attention. He is Mayfair's favorite criminal ("I'd like you to meet Eddie Chapman, my smuggler friend. Tell us about the jobs you've pulled lately, Eddie"). And low society in Britain pays him homage, for in his time, Eddie was the prince of safecrackers. After the war, it became apparent to all his acquaintances that...
...when official tolerance at last encouraged them to establish one. In 1840 a delegation of Jesuit priests, cautiously clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800 for the Farm Street leasehold in what was then a stifling congestion of stables and cab-choked cobble streets. But as Mayfair spread out and the Edwardian upper crust turned the stables into mews flats, Farm Street became top-drawer. The best known Farm Street figure of this elegant era was handsome, well-born Father Bernard Vaughan, whose sermons packed such dramatic punch that professional actors came to church for pointers...