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...past 21 years, Town & Country has been unobtrusively owned by William Randolph Hearst. Slight, worldly-wise Editor Harry Bull, like Hearst, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, won fame of a sort in 1924 when he bested the then Prince of Wales in a pillow-fight aboard the Berengaria, returning from Europe. He worked briefly for TIME, moved to Town & Country from the late International Studio in 1931, became editor in 1935. Owner Hearst has never darkened Bull's editorial door, or given Town & Country's small staff of 13 anything but postpublication criticism...
...Rock. In Ketchikan, Alaska, Mrs. Fred West awoke suddenly from a sound sleep, found that a construction blast had dropped a huge boulder on the pillow next her head...
Brothels, Boorishness. "Lyovochka the bubble," as he became known to his three elder brothers, took life with gusto from the start. He loved pillow fights and, at the age of nine, a pretty little house guest whom he pushed downstairs because she gave him too little attention. He was ugly, and in his teens dismayed society by not only looking but behaving like a troglodyte, as Turgenev called him. Neither dressing like a fop nor training on horizontal bars brought the shy Count success with fashionable ladies. He took refuge in boorishness and brothels...
...books (China to Me, The Soong Sisters, Hong Kong Holiday) impertinent, casual Emily Hahn proved that she was the only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...
...even his head meets the pillow...