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Older Sisters Unity and Diana lived it up with Adolf Hitler. Eldest Sister Nancy became one of London's "gay young things" immortalized by Novelist Evelyn Waugh, then started writing successful books herself (Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire in Love). At 19, Jessica eloped to Spain with Winston Churchill's leftist nephew, Esmond Romilly (who was later killed in World War II). Her outraged father persuaded Foreign Minister Anthony Eden to dispatch a destroyer to bring her home, but Jessica resisted the captain's effort to lure her aboard...
...Waugh Parties in a Dirigible...
...must do for one another to make sure that we continue to live on this earth. The kind of après-moi-le-dé-luge parties and life-style that goes with them seem more and more distasteful. The accounts of such rounds are beginning to sound like Evelyn Waugh parties in a dirigible during...
Like Jane Austen, Elizabeth Jane Howard (Mrs. Kingsley Amis) constructs her novel by pairing off her people with a series of outsiders and observing the consequences-in this case, a miscarriage, a Riviera love affair and a slow poisoning. Like Evelyn Waugh, the author believes that fate has the blind staggers. She takes peculiar delight in showing that there is no justice in the distribution of misery and joy, no allowance made for innocence or effort. Alice, for example, succeeds in escaping her father's house-but ends up unhappily married in a "luxury bungalow with Spanish-style touches...
...Kings Tavern is being remade into "Minuteman Radio" by owner John Waugh, who will have a mod radio and record shop there. It will open about March 1 with a "Hi-Fi Happening...