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Simon Elwes did not realize it but a seed had been planted in him. At the time, however, he all but forgot the experience. "The world of the flesh and the devil," he says, "took me back." In that world he prospered. He married a daughter of Lord Rennel of Rodd, fathered three sons. In London's Mayfair and on Manhattan's Park Avenue he established himself as a stylish portraitist. During World War II, Elwes served as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Hussars. Then last year, suddenly, blood clotted on his brain, paralyzing the right half...
...WHISPERING GALLERY - "An Ex-Diplomat" - Boni & Liveright ($3.00). John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., the London publishers, have withdrawn the book and caused the arrest on a charge of fraud of one Hesketh Pearson who sold them the manuscript and assured them that it is by Sir Rennel Rodd, onetime (1908-1919) British Ambassador to Italy, who has denied writing it. Last week the Manhattan publishers refused to withdraw the U. S. edition which is proving a "best seller...
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