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Outsiders, however, haven't seen it quite the same way. Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death, the 1963 blockbuster that first disinterred the scandalous practices of the funeral industry, told TIME shortly before her death last summer that she planned to target the deceptive practices of consolidators in a revision of her book, which she jokingly titled Death Warmed Over (to be published by Knopf). "You think of dear old Mr. Johnson, an honest old chap that your family has dealt with over the years, and so you go to Johnson's, and it turns...
DIED. JESSICA MITFORD, 78, muckraking journalist and best-selling author; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif. In her quest to "embarrass the guilty," Mitford wrote books on the funeral business (The American Way of Death, 1969), the U.S. prison system (Kind and Unusual Punishment, 1973) and obstetrics (The American Way of Birth, 1992). She also wrote about her aristocratic and eccentric British family, from which she was disinherited after eloping with a second cousin in 1936. Her eldest sister was the novelist Nancy Mitford...
...perfect look for now," says Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld. "She has a natural arrogance without seeming aggressive." If that's true, she came by it honestly. Her grandfather is Lord Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, and she's the great-niece of novelist Nancy Mitford. Tennant, who has been a model for only two years, has something else few of her runway associates have: an art-school degree. She studied sculpture, to which she wants to return. But for now, the only figure she's working with...
...follows perverse characters, this family history sparkles on the surface. But The House of Mitford refuses to probe the darkness, and by treating its subjects with too much charity, reduces their lives and careers to a series of gossipy, entertaining, but ultimately trivial pursuits. Perhaps, given their predilections, this is the book they deserve...
Radio Humorist Garrison Keillor's first novel gives fans something more lasting than air. The seven siblings of The House of Mitford...