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...troubled tale Fast spins through most of the 389 pages. Almost any other author would have left Dan Lavette dead, his stomach perforated with ulcers. But Fast leaves him tanned, muscular and poor, smelling of fish and brine, married at last to the Chinese lover he would not wed before. One can almost see Fast the grinning Zen Buddhist, sitting in his solar-heated home, tying off the novel with a quote from Lao Tzu about the wisdom of stepping off the merry-go-round of ambition. "I'm not given to pessimism," Fast explains...
...sole bomb of the Le Carré career. It also coincided with the end of the Cornwell marriage. "Like all divorces, it was awful," he concludes tersely. "We both very quickly remarried, and we both have second families." Ann married a British diplomat; a year after his divorce, David wed Jane Eustace, editor at Cornwell's English publishers, Hodder & Stoughton. After Son Nicholas was born in 1972 the new family centered on the cliff house in Cornwall. To go farther west from London and still dwell in England, the citizen would have to be a lighthouse keeper...
...greatest portion of the largesse Mandel received was used for the expensive divorce settlement-including some $100,000 in cash-that enabled him to shed Barbara ("Bootsie") Mandel, his wife of 32 years, and wed attractive, blonde Jeanne Dorsey. Last week Bootsie reflected sadly: "The world was ours. I got the best years of Marvin Mandel, and she [Jeanne] got what's left." The Baltimore crowd that awaited Mandel after the verdict was announced was less sympathetic. "Bye-bye, Marvin!" shouted hecklers...
Died. Prince Charles of Luxembourg, 49, younger brother of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; of a heart attack; at his estate in Florence, Italy. A dashing, fun-loving sportsman, Charles was long active in promoting business and industry in his pocket principality. In 1967 he wed Joan Douglas Dillon, daughter of former U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon...