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...just before 1 a.m. when the limousine pulled up before swank Maxwell's Plum. The familiar figure got out and strode towards the maitre d'. He was told the restaurant was closing. "But Muriel and I just want a bite to eat," he said. A bored look around the still-filled premises and a bored reply: "I'm sorry we're about to close." In a moment the car was speeding off into the night, its two solitary passengers disappearing behind the tinted glass...
...rilled with ennui and regret that she did not make him younger, handsomer, more dashing. Finally, however, she is gracious. "As life goes on, it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented," she writes. "Presumably you have learned literary humility. If I could write like Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark or Graham Greene, I should jump to high heaven with delight, but I know that I can't." This disarming passage ends with a motto that also fits this modest, agreeable book. Dame Agatha recalls a plate on her nursery wall, "which I think I must have...
...Washington, but he came back in style. Walter Mondale, who was Humphrey's protege long before he ever heard of Jimmy Carter, suggested that the President stop off on his way back to Washington from a fund-raising dinner in California to pick up Humphrey and his wife Muriel in Minneapolis. Joshed Humphrey: "I waited, because I am a frugal man, until I could get a free ride. For at least 20 years I have been trying to get on Air Force One. Just the thought of it, the vibrations, gave me new hope and new strength...
Tracing the radical fluctuations of feline popularity over the centuries is only one of the innumerable delights that Author Muriel Beadle brings to her consistently fascinating book. Throughout, The Cat purrs with literary amusement and the kind of rousing curiosity that allegedly led its subject to a bad end and this book to a happy...
...human annals such a feat would be beyond belief. In Muriel Beadle's richly informative volume, it is only one of many tails well told...