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Probably wisely, he omits mention of the venerable schoolboy yockibus...
...auto crash near Ballarat after fathering her child, John Jr.-turned aside Taft's proposal with a gentle no. Peter said he would go on to Europe, study public affairs at Paris' Institute of Political Studies. Said Wendy Marshall: "At the moment, Peter is really a professional schoolboy. However, I am planning a trip to Europe next March, and what happens while I am overseas is not for comment...
...invented Jeeves and had 13 successive butlers when he lived in Europe, now lives in quiet, butlerless Remsenburg, on Long Island, about two hours from Manhattan. "Plummie" (a schoolboy nickname) now makes do with a part-time gardener who tends his twelve beautifully kept acres, and a four-day-a-week maid who helps wife "Bunny" run a charming ten-room white-shingled house. At 76, Wodehouse still does his "getting-up" exercises at 7:30, walks three to five miles a day, keeps the two birdbaths filled...
...some point of adolescence, every schoolboy falls distantly in love with an actress. Few do as complete a job as Anthony, the downbeat narrator of this new novel, who carries the torch for his actress over a stretch of 18 years and then, lamentably, achieves gratification...
Even as a schoolboy, Anthony is an odd one: an American with a background of wealth and parental indifference attending a Parisian lycee. At 15, eating ice cream and plum cake in a tearoom near the Madeleine, Anthony finds the courage to speak worshipfully to Christiane Mondor, a 22-year-old, swan-necked beauty who is moving through her first season of heady triumphs on the stage...