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...PURSUIT OF LOVE (247 pp.) -Nancy Mitford-Random House...
...Nancy Mitford has written five novels, but her latest has the qualities of a first-rate first novel. This comedy of aristocratic manners that is a best-seller in England has freshness, spontaneity, characters that seem to have stepped out of the author's life-which is precisely what most of Pursuit's characters have done...
...Honorable Nancy Freeman-Mitford is eldest (42) and perhaps least strange of the six daughters of David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, second Baron Redesdale. She is the wife of the Hon. Peter Murray Rennell Rodd, who is an ex-lieutenant colonel in the Welsh Guards, a Sahara explorer, and a leftist journalist. Nancy, who now lives in Paris writing the English versions of Anglo-French movies, is politically pinkish, and takes a dim view of her sisters, who include: 1) Unity, famed Hitler-loving Wagnerian blonde; 2) Diana, wife of Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley (she spent most of World...
...villain of the Cummins' news shorts is conservatism. But, like a good propagandist, Cummins sometimes varies his fare with shorts like the one on the homecoming of Hitler-loving Unity Freeman-Mitford (TiME, Jan. 15, 1940). The short was narrated in smooth doggerel,† accompanying shots of British troops keeping the press at bay with fixed bayonets...
...recent years, however, he has shown an increasing, if spare-time, interest in women. He has enjoyed nude dancing exhibitions. He had a platonic admiration for the sightly young English aristocrat Unity Freeman-Mitford, as the "perfect example of Nordic beauty." The bullet wound with which she returned to England after the outbreak of war (TIME, Jan. 15, 1940) was self-inflicted...