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...flat her mother and father had bought for her and which she was sharing with three other young women. Reporters staked the place out and would call up till midnight and as early as six in the morning, badgering Diana for details of the romance. All this moved Mrs. Shand Kydd to write a letter of protest to the Times, and moved her daughter, finally, to tears. After a hectic pursuit from South Kensington to Mayfair, Diana sat and wept on a bench in Berkeley Square, comforted by a friend, while the repentant press slipped a note onto the seat...
...rumors. Diana was ambushed by paparazzi while riding in her car and reduced to tears. Finally, a story in the Sunday Mirror alleged that she had been trysting with the Prince on the royal family's private train. That was the last straw. Her mother, the Honorable Mrs. Shand-Kydd, fired off a letter to the Times. "Is it necessary or fair to harass my daughter daily, from dawn until well after dusk?" she asked. Then the palace took the almost unprecedented step of demanding a retraction of the "love train" story. It did not get one, but chastened...
...Sherman Shand New Orleans
Died. Robert Gordon Shand, 70, longtime (1946-63) managing editor of the New York Daily News, biggest paper in the U.S., with a current circulation of 2,000,000 daily, 3,000,000 Sunday; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan. He once defined what made his tabloid sell: "The real appeal of the News is that it lights up the narrow routine of millions of lives with gleams from the great outside. Its readers thrill with second-hand emotion they will never know: they shudder from crimes they will never commit, they quiver with courage that shall never be theirs...
...JACK SHAND...