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...have intercourse with Hitler, he instead threw himself on the floor, begged her to kick him and became excited when she finally complied. Rene later killed herself. According to Langer, Eva Braun tried twice to take her life before her final successful attempt, and another Hitler intimate, Unity Mitford, also tried suicide. "Rather an unusual record for a man who has had so few affairs with women," Langer wryly observed...
...also expected to look to Britain for counsel. So are Denmark and Norway, whose economies are so closely tied to Britain's that they have little choice but to follow her into the Community. Not that Prince Charles is about to be appointed Emperor, as Nancy Mitford has wryly suggested. Ireland, for example, which will vote on entry in a referendum next spring and which has already won assurance that important EEC documents will be translated into Gaelic, sees the Common Market as a way of finally escaping from British domination. Dublin may well look to Paris for leadership...
...Union (national membership about 400) turned out to publicize their cause with a brunch of prison food. The "isolation loaf," made from a Department of Corrections recipe for prisoners in solitary, was pronounced revolting by the "name" guests. "A cross between cat food and dog food," said Writer Jessica Mitford. But some of the freeloaders seemed to think it wasn't bad. One fellow who went back for seconds turned out to be Radical Lawyer William Kunstler, who said he had had no food the day before. "I'd eat anything." he said, speaking with his mouth full...
There is still a residual insular attitude, as expressed by the character Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love: "Abroad is utterably bloody and foreigners are fiends." Few Britons seriously believe that they will lose their national identity if they join the Market, any more than French or Germans have lost theirs. Still, they do not want to feel lumped together as one part of a frequently squabbling whole. Most important, at least in the short run, the British fear that higher-priced Common Market foods will cause drastic increases in their cost of living...
...NATIONAL magazine recently pointed out that F. Scott Fitzgerald, for decades one of this country's most seriously neglected writers, is rapidly becoming an American industry. In the wake of Nancy Mitford's best-selling biography of the novelist's wife Zelda, no less than five books about Fitzgerald have found their way on to publishers' lists this year. It only makes sense...