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Altman told his wife he had purchased the violin for $100 from a "friend." These days a Stradivarius can command as much as $1 million. Altman's widow will have to settle for an undisclosed reward from the instrument's rightful owner, Lloyd's of London, which 51 years ago paid the violin's last owner $30,000 for the loss...
...lonesome widow runs a bookshop on a ranch in Arizona, one of the warmest bookshops on earth. Her name is Winifred Bundy, and her establishment is called the Singing Wind. You go north out of Benson on the Ocotillo Road, cross the train tracks and proceed 2 1/4 miles across a cattle guard to the shot-up mailbox -- SINGING WIND, it says, a careworn advertisement that is easy to miss -- where you hang a right on dirt, continue a quarter of a mile, open a gate, close it behind you and continue another quarter of a mile past horses, cows...
...suppressed sexuality. He believes all virtue is fraud, and he delights in destroying women by making them believe so too. He has only one love, the marquise, and she is less a companion than a rival. Rickman and Duncan are at once captivating and appalling. Theirs is a black-widow-spider courting ritual of conquests and abrupt abandonments...
...named Griswold Norrie looks forward to his nuptials with the rich, beautiful Ione Carruthers: "He and Ione between them would be connected by blood or marriage to every family that counted in Manhattan society!" The only impediment is Griswold's determination to invite Atalanta, his paternal grandfather's widow, to the festivities. Because of her uncertain past and the general belief that she married an old man for his fortune, this woman simply cannot be received by people who matter. Griswold can have either his integrity or his bride. His potential mother-in-law tries to explain things...
Auchincloss gently mocks such pretensions, but he takes seriously those people who try to live by the rules. Times may change; strictures remain for the fortunate few. No Friend Like a New Friend is set in the early 1960s. Frances Hamill, widow of an eminent lawyer, banker and adviser to Presidents, finds herself at a dinner party seated next to Manners Mabon, a short, fat, charming bachelor with no visible means of support. Before long, the matron and the dilettante are seen together constantly at art galleries and museums. People begin to talk, and Frances receives a painful reproof from...