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...celebrate the event, and to exploit its publicity potentialities, the management of Soho's Le Condor nightclub thought up a special kind of party. The management called it "The Confidential Ball-dressed for exposure," sent out invitations to some 300 of Tony's friends, most of whom accepted. They arrived dressed according to instructions-in pajamas, bathing suits or just their underwear. Among the guests: Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 25, the sister of Lord Londonderry, Sir Hugo Sebright, 26, Daphne Pattine, a cousin of the Duke of Norfolk, one Count Gerhard von Goerl, and a sprinkling...
...covered the London air raids from the streets and rooftops, made a point of dining under a skylight in a Soho restaurant. Against CBS orders, he went on 25 bombing missions over Germany and broadcast from a British minesweeper in World War II. He has rushed to floods, tornadoes and hurricanes, made three different trips to cover the Korean front-one during his month's vacation-and once had to be hospitalized for exhaustion on his return. Last season, between interviews with Nasser in Cairo, Chou En-lai in Rangoon, and Tito on the island of Brioni, he dashed...
...files, the British Museum, gossip and newspapers in half a dozen languages, a mass of information on going topics such as had never reached an American newspaper before." Marx wrote on political developments in England, France, Spain, the Middle and Far East, "the whole world, as seen from his Soho garret." Editor Greeley, notes Author Hale, "was a perennial twister of the British lion's tail," and had an eager accomplice, in Anglophobe Marx. Some of Marx's bitterest tirades for the Tribune, e.g., his dispatch on the plight of British workers during the depressed 18503, were bodily...
...Soho hipsters who swelter and suffocate for it in the Cat's Whisker, the Côte d'Azur or The Two I's, skiffle is brand-new; to jazz critics and non-skiffling professional musicians, it is old-"a bastardized, commercialized form of the real thing," said one critic, "watered down to suit the sickly orange-juice tastes of musical illiterates...
...another." ¶ Wife Marilyn was getting mixed no tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable!" But from the London News Chronicle's Fashionewshen Jean Soward came a Soho snarl. Ticking off Marilyn as a "fat frump," Jean com mented: "The most prominent thing about her is her spare tire. Lots of us have one, but most of us dress to disguise it." Re torted uncorseted Marilyn airily: "Any woman who dresses to please women is only fooling herself...