Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dubiously behind. Then he was whooping and laughing and fast-stepping, next trotting, and finally he broke into a full gallop across the field with the whole camp of 600 streaming along in joyful pursuit. Mused one observer: "A regular Pied Piper." · · · For a year now, Somerset Maugham, 89, growing ever more crotchety with age, has been trying to disavow Lady John Hope, 47, the daughter with whom he has been feuding, and to disinherit her in favor of his longtime secretary-companion Alan Searle. Last week a Paris court, operating under both British and French...
...spring, however, the excitement of the oncoming Presidential election engaged the politically-minded. The Taft Club met the President at the Somerset Hotel, and Roosevelt spoke to his Club at the Union. The CRIMSON noted an increasing interest in socialism, and hoped that such "radical" doctrines would be looked at objectively. Lincoln Steffens gave several lectures on corruption in politics, but the undergraduates nonetheless ran off to rallies for Taft and Roosevelt...
...Near Dublin, the cast, crew, director, scenarists, and flacks connected with filming Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage have been behaving as if they were making another version of the offscreen Cleopatra. Soon after shooting began a couple of months ago, Roderick Mann of London's Sunday Express arrived for an exclusive interview with Kim Novak-and that's what he got. He stopped taking notes and started holding hands with her at the races. "This is a very personal thing between Roddy and me," Kim tells Roddy's competitors. Meanwhile. Director Henry Hathaway...
...passed his 89th birthday at his $1,000,000 villa on the French Riviera, Author Somerset Maugham demonstrated the art of growing old realistically. "I am a very old party who has arrived at an age which is no longer amusing," he gruffed. "On this birthday I really have no wishes to make...
When he graduated from Oxford in 1943, Poet Philip Larkin dreamed of becoming a famous novelist and living on the Riviera "like Somerset Maugham." But after two novels flopped in Britain, he decided he was better suited to poetry, confessing later: "It's like moving to a much smaller house after finding you cannot afford to keep up the mansion of your dreams." Larkin has become one of England's finest poets, but he may have deserted his mansion too soon. The second novel, A Girl in Winter, has now been published in the U.S.; and while...