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...title might be Enter Sir Robert, The Duke's Daughter or even Love Among the Ruins, but the contents never varied. There was always just enough plot to hold together a succession of chats in which the aged Lord Stoke, who cultivates a deafness of convenience, Mrs. Morland, the giddy novelist, and various gentle-born friends agree that the bishopess (always absent) is a pill. Gradually, as the Barsetshire books piled up, nearly everyone of note in the county appeared, married and begat (hardly anyone died), and Storyteller Thirkell confessed that for the life of her she could...
...felt summer-homeless. But the novelist had left five chapters of a new book, and Writer C. A. Lejeune, former film critic for the London Observer, undertook to pick up the almost invisible plot thread. Fittingly enough, she ended the book with a huge 70th birthday party for Mrs. Morland, the dithery novelist who, readers justifiably suspected, more than slightly resembled Author Thirkell. After the last bit of cake has been eaten, there comes a final passage whose treacle might have been spooned by the master herself: "'Darling Lavinia,' said Lord Mellings, 'Are you sure you really...
Died. Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, the 4th Baron Westbury, 46. unemployed ex-soldier heir of the legendary "Curse of the Pharaohs," which purportedly killed three kinsmen and numerous members of the 1922 archaeological team that excavated the more than 3,000-year-old tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen; of a heart attack; in Geneva. Secretary to the Egyptian expedition that uncovered the hieroglyphic anathema-"Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of the Pharaoh"-Lord Westbury 's father died six years after the discovery (also at 46), while his grandfather (who kept...
...NIGEL MORLAND London...
...that caused no end of consternation. The Archbishop was not invited to the royal banquet following the wedding of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko-apparently because imperial officials had confused him with the Communist-lining "Red Dean" of Canterbury. "It's fearfully embarrassing for Ambassador Sir Oscar Morland," said one Briton. "Morland has been invited, yet Fisher outranks him. In fact, Fisher outranks everyone in England except the royal family...