Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed British Writers Rebecca West and the late H. G. Wells (who were never married, either), Novelist Anthony West has a pretty fair idea of what it means to be a Dickie Savage. In Heritage, his third novel and his best, he gracefully charts young Savage's uncertain course from childhood hurt to freewheeling young manhood. In other hands this could have been a sour book; instead, it is intelligent, witty, and tolerant toward the childishness of the great...
...black (instead of her customary flaming red) hair. Having walked out on Husband No. 4, Dick Haymes, in Hollywood, Rita was setting out for Europe to give her daughters a chance to visit with their fathers. There was no problem about Husband No. 2 Orson Welles's seeing Rebecca, 10. But Rita wanted to be sure that she got back Yasmin, 5, after the child's six-week visit with Husband No. 3, Prince Aly Khan, insisted that a $100,000 bond be posted to guarantee Yasmin's return. Aly, harboring no ill feelings, was so happy...
...TRAIN OF POWDER (310 pp.)-Rebecca West-Viking...
...Rebecca West, firm, formidable, and possessed of a frown like a side of the Grand Canyon, likes to see her nouns buttressed by stout adjectives like "fatuous," "obscene" and "idiotic"; even "bitchery" is in her vocabulary. At worst, her hardbitten prose is that of an obsessive governess threatening children with hellfire; at best, it expresses an energetic mind absorbed in the pursuit of common sense and justice. In A Train of Powder Author West examines with Old Testament sternness some recent efforts to bring malefactors before...
Leaving her two children, Yasmin, 4 (daughter of Prince Ali Khan), and Rebecca, 9 (daughter of Orson Welles), frolicking at Lake Tahoe, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, with her fourth husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, in tow, journeyed to nearby Reno for the climax of a Versailles among divorce settlements. Yasmin was the prize. For her, Prince Aly signed away a princess's ransom of the estimated $500 million fortune of his aging (77) father, Ago Khan, who dotes on Yasmin and will treasure her as one of his four heirs.* To Rita will come more than $1,500 a month...