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Critics Don't Buy. Cole lives handsomely with his wife Marie and two daughters in an $85,000, English-style home in Los Angeles' posh Hancock Park. (When a lawyer for nearby property owners told him bluntly in 1948 that "we don't want any undesirable people coming into this neighborhood," he replied: "Neither do I. If I see anybody undesirable coming in here, I'll be the first to complain.") Though polished and well-mannered, he has a flair for the astringent crack. When critics complained that he had deserted pure jazz for sentimental corn...
Battle-weary after skirmishes with union cooks and waiters who have thrown an inelegant picket line around his posh Manhattan saloon, Stork Club Proprietor Sherman Billingsley .withdrew to his East Side town house, discovered that the working class had infiltrated his defenses. Perched on his front stoop, six house painters were chomping sandwiches and enjoying the sun. Spying out union men behind the ham on rye, Billingsley invited the workmen to "get the hell out of here," waved a .25 automatic. Summoned to the station house, Billingsley showed up with Attorney Roy Cohn, doe-eyed onetime boy commando...
...process of perpetual improvement. That era's brilliant, fashionable upper-class leftists-Auden, Ishenvood, Spender et al.-are dismissed by Amis and Co. as playboys on a slumming party. The "new men" have actually been poor, and understandably they smirk when they pick up the memoirs of a posh erstwhile pink like Philip Toynbee (son of A Study of History'> Arnold J.) and read:"It was there, at Castle Howard, that I fell in love with Laura Bonham-Carter; and what I best remember about the first breathless evening is a dinner in the Canaletto room...
...working as a pianist at night (at $84 a week). Soon Robin was taking Margaretha to dinner; once, dressed as Little Jack Horner, he took Margaretha (dressed as Little Red Riding Hood) to a ball sponsored by Princess Margaret. When Robin moved over to the cocktail bar at the posh Berkeley Hotel, Margaretha came and listened until he finished his 7-to-9-o'clock stint. Early this year he wrote her mother Princess Sibylla, asking for Margaretha's hand. Margaretha abruptly returned to her palace in Sweden...
...Hawley, a medium-posh Connecticut prep school, the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts, and the masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat...