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...scion of an old Virginia fox-hunting family, Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Cornicle Shepherd Jr., 58, took a day off from his official duties, rode off across the Virginia hills with a Warrenton hunt. The chase went merrily until General Shepherd's horse stepped in a hole and took a header. Although he rolled clear of his mount, much-wounded (four Purple Hearts) Marine Shepherd got up with a broken collarbone, was mending nicely at week...
LOST SPLENDOR, by Prince Felix Youssoupoff (307 pp.; Putnam; $4.50), offers the memoirs of the scion of one of Rus sia's great feudal families. Prince Youssoupoff's great-grandmother was Emperor Nicholas I's mistress, and his great-greatgrandfather was a lover of Catherine the Great. The old rake was so rich he had a private theater and ballet, and so dissolute that when he waved his cane all dancers appeared on stage stark naked. Young Prince Felix married a niece of the Czar, vowed he would save the 300-year-old Romanoff dynasty by assassinating...
...full schedule, however. Ever since his childhood flight from Vienna in 1936, a few weeks before the Nazis overran Austria, the thirty-year old lecturer has filled his life with more activity than most men twice his life wit more activity than most men twice his age. The scion of an old rabbinical family, Taubes worked from 1943 to 1945 with Jesuit priests and the great Protestant theologian, Karl Barth, in a network of underground groups centered in Zurich...
Hollywood has contributed a touch of the ludicrous by putting Humphrey Bogart under a homburg and trying to palm him off as a scion of the rich. Bogart is an obvious ringer in the role; you can almost see him wince as he talks about cans of "tomahto" juice...
...days when Long Island was a sort of multimillionaire's yacht moored to Manhattan, the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) had her eye on a scion (William Holden). But all she ever got in return was the dust of his foreign-made car as he roared off to live another scene from The Great Gatsby. Resigned to a life in the servants' quarters, she went sadly off to cooking school in Paris...