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...Pastmaster; Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington and Viola Chasm. This glittering, blandly selfish, pretentiously stupid upper-class riffraff was to romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later creations as raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape. With her cotton-winged angels (Chastity, Divine Discontent, et al.), Mrs. Ape wowed high society by singing her inspirational hymn: There ain't no flies...
...this shrilly articulate circle, Evelyn is said to have sat usually mute, but terrifyingly observant. Other contemporaries recall a more vigorous Waugh-a young sport who, like Father Rothschild, rode a motorcycle and, like Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington, drank a good deal and was sometimes noisy in public places. He was conspicuously bohemian and agnostic and enjoyed baiting Roman Catholics, for his wit already possessed a fine cutting edge...
...with a huge head (size 7⅞ hat) and thinning red-blond hair, he swears rarely, smokes not at all, limits his drinking to two Scotches (neat). He wears conservative ties and double-breasted suits, which he buys off the rack at St. Paul's Maurice L. Rothschild & Co. He is equally at home with bankers and ditchdiggers. He is formal in his professional relationships, always keeps his coat on whatever the temperature, looks disapprovingly on those of his associates who wear flashy sports jackets. While talking, even in private, he organizes his replies into Point One, Point...
Married. Gwendoline de Rothschild, 21, brunette Barnard College student, younger daughter of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild of Vienna, great-granddaughter of Banking Dynast Solomon de Rothschild; and H. Roland Hoguet, 27, socialite meat salesman (Armour) ; in Manhattan...
Died. Baron Henri de Rothschild, 75. French financier, physician, philanthropist and viniculturist; of a heart ailment; near Lausanne, Switzerland. Probably the most noteworthy of the Rothschilds, Baron Henri won respect for his work on infants' diseases, on milk as a food, and on the radium treatment of cancer (he set up the famed Pierre Curie Institute for radium research). He also found time to write plays for the Paris stage...