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...Beautiful Bluestocking. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, daughter of a well-to-do businessman and created Marquise de Pompadour by her royal lover, arrived in the "rats' nests" in 1745, stayed at the court 20 years until her death at 42. Her figure seemed to be made wholly of nymphish curves: her skin was "snow-white," her eyes "the brightest, wittiest and most sparkling." She could act dance and sing, play the clavichord "to perfection," paint, draw, engrave precious stones, and spout about gardening, botany and natural history-"a more accomplished woman," says Author Mitford, "has seldom lived." The only interesting...
Bracing Brother. In 1932 the Griffins are a well-to-do Los Angeles family, so close that no member breathes except through the smothering palm of another. Father Griffin, balding and in his late 503, is not out of Clarence Day, but out of a manual on corporate management. To him, his children are irresponsible junior executives who must submit periodic balance sheets on their behavior. "What have we here?" he asks in his raised-eyebrow voice when the accounts are out of line. Mother Griffin has a large, solid body, but her brain is the stuff pillows are made...
...tung, 61. chairman of the Politburo, the Central Committee, the Government and Military Council-in short, the dictator. The son of a well-to-do peasant, he attended the founding meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. tirelessly organized China's peasants while others concentrated mistakenly on workers in the cities, ultimately forged the great peasant army and tailored the dogma which carried Communism to triumph in China. He had the opportunism to capitalize on Japan's aggression: "Our determined policy is 70% self-development, 20% compromise and 10% fight the Japanese." He had the ruthlessness...
Anna Maria Caglio is an aristocrat, the kind of girl whom Via Véneto doormen automatically salute. Daughter of a well-to-do Milan attorney, she was educated in prim Swiss schools, went to Rome when she was 20, hoping to break into the theater or the movies. She had little success, but she became a part of the highest-living, fastest-traveling Roman set. The most dashing of them all was the Marchese Ugo Montagna. Soon Anna Maria was his acknowledged mistress, accepting an $800-a-month allowance and living with him openly. But last summer Ugo threw...
...manuscripts a year, and scrupulously goes through them all. Those writers lucky enough to please her fancy will see their stuff in Botteghe Oscure, a fat, cream-colored semiannual collection of writing that prints contributions in French, Italian and English. A writer who is known to be well-to-do may get very little for a fine long story. A poor poet may be paid beyond his wildest hopes for a brief poem...