Word: memoirist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends of the family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though it was blown and whispered to him from every side." Even so, "the work made a great impression...
...memoirs are still in the dictation stage: every day the memoirist rattles off Churchillian prose to his secretaries. Five ribbon-bound stacks of notes, diaries and outlines, one for each volume, lie on Winston Churchill's work table in his library at Chartwell. Early next year, it is hoped. Vol. I (probably covering the period up to Dunkirk) will appear in a weekly series in LIFE, and daily installments in the Times. Other installments will probably follow at six-month intervals, timed to dovetail with book publication by Houghton Mifflin...
...George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of the King & Queen. The younger son is Sacheverell, amateur of baroque art, and biographer of Franz Liszt...