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...Elder, former Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Greek and Latin Emeritus died January 1 of a heart attack in Ravello, Italy...
...honorable role, the well-rounded man of letters." He adds: "Vidal does not seem to be taken seriously by most academic critics, but they could learn something about graceful, effective prose from studying his work." From Rome, Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof traveled with Vidal to his hillside villa in Ravello. "After a tour of the house and a drink of Vidal's home-bottled wine, we went out to dinner and talked until midnight," says Amfitheatrof. "By then the file was all but writing itself." Meanwhile New York Correspondent Roland Flamini talked to friends, foes, editors and other authorities...
...Swallow's Nest), his spectacular Italian villa at Ravello, perched on a 200-ft. cliff overlooking the Amalfi coast. The sundrenched three-story house is impeccably furnished and filled with mementos and family photographs; Senator Gore's old rocking chair sits in the second-floor study where his grandson writes...
Night life at Ravello is generally subdued. Visitors to La Rondinaia have included Princess Margaret, the Newmans, Andy Warhol and Mick and Bianca Jagger, but Vidal spends most evenings alone, reading until 3 a.m.-usually research for what he will write the next...
Away from Ravello. the Radziwills live relatively unnoticed in their London town house. Bulky, mustachioed Stash Radziwill wrestles a Cadillac around narrow London streets and looks like the chap who got his comeuppance in the final reel of every Pearl White thriller. Except for a slight accent, he is as English as the Ascot-almost. The prince arrived in London after World War II with little to his name but his name. He made some quick killings in real estate, and has settled down to quiet dabbling. Slash's cash has enabled the Radziwills to furnish their elegant Georgian...