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...Welshman and a Polynesian noblewoman, Dr. Davis went to New Zealand when he was eleven. He got his M.D. in 1943, was a house surgeon in Auckland, practiced psychiatry in Dunedin and studied tropical medicine in Sydney before he went back to the Cook Islands with his New Zealand wife. There he found only eight health workers, none of them medical graduates, to care for 16,000 people on 15 islands. scattered over 300,000 square miles of the Pacific...
...conditioned reflex, experienced moviegoers may accept Tyrone Power as a dashing example of Renaissance Man. But Wanda Hendrix, ludicrously miscast as an Italian noblewoman, looks like a bobby-soxer lost in an art museum. As her guardian-husband, Aylmer is still playing Polonius with all the sententiousness and none of the wit. Welles, in his own freehand style, out-borgias Borgia. Even as capable an actor as Everett Sloane plays a scoundrel to excess...
...conquests. His mistresses included prostitutes, actresses, a singer-writer from Sandusky, Ohio named Blanche Roosevelt, a French woman whose husband was a diplomat in Rumania and for whom (perhaps to show his gratitude) De Maupassant tried to obtain the coveted ribbon of the Legion of Honor, and a Polish noblewoman...
...chatterbox Lady Astor; from the U.S. after a silent six-week visit. Mother lingered behind, possibly to paste in the family scrapbook a piquant social item from the Des Moines Register; "When [Lady Astor] finished speaking at the . . . tea, one of the guests thanked the speaker profusely. The English noblewoman responded with a sudden kick right on her admirer's posterior. The guest stiffened,then, with a gale of laughter, turned and kicked the Lady right back...
Balzac's hunger for money and social status finally led him to marry one of his admiring correspondents, Madame Eve de Hanska, a wealthy noblewoman from the Ukraine. She gave him the position he had scrambled for all his life, but he died only five months after their marriage. Balzac's 17-year courtship was the most violent chapter in the fantastically turbulent novel that was his own life. Readers will wish that Stefan Zweig had kept himself alive long enough to have finished the proper telling...