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...them. The very early Churchills were so obscure that Author Rowse dispatches five centuries of them in eight pages. One such was apparently a plain 12th century blacksmith, whose presence in the family tree the present Sir Winston has found "disquieting." The blacksmith's son married a widow a cut above him, and by dint of a few generations of such nimble marriages, the Churchills became gentry, landed but impoverished. The clan's private golden age began in the mid-17th century with Sir Winston Churchill, a loyal colonel in the forces of Charles I, whose budding career...
...takes a ritualistic one-hour nap, getting into pajamas, sleeping soundly. Sometimes he works through the afternoon; sometimes he relaxes among his Oriental wood carvings and Chinese Buddhas; sometimes he takes the second Mrs. Rockefeller (his beloved Abby died in 1948; in 1951 he married Martha Baird Allen, widow of a classmate of the faraway days of Brown) for a drive in one of the family cars, or a carriage-and-pair, to savor the salty tang...
...lurid history that John O'Hara's characters might envy. Novelist Metalious suggests that sex is never long out of the town's mind; anyway, it seldom is out of hers. Her hero (strangely enough a schoolteacher with a Greek name) courts the local widow with such niceties as "a stunning blow across the mouth with the back of his hand." And her love scenes are as explicit as love scenes can get without the use of diagrams and tape recorder. By sheer volume, the low animal moans produced "deep in the throat'' by Peyton...
Always on the alert for some way to widen his scope, Rapp spotted Prokofiev's left-hand concerto on a list, wrote to his widow in Moscow to ask her for the score. As the music was heard in Berlin last week (with the Metropolitan Opera's Martin Rich conducting), it no longer seemed aggressively modern, as it had to Wittgenstein, but more like an old friend. The whole piece is sprayed with crotchety harmonies, but it always makes the kind of leeway towards a safe harmonic port that is part of Prokofiev's charm. The solo...
Reported engaged to Presidential Candidate Adlai E. Stevenson, Mrs. Dorothy Vredenburgh, a handsome Alabama widow and secretary to the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, coyly suggested to inquiring reporters: "You better ask Adlai." Asked, Adlai gallantly replied: "I was never more flattered, but unfortunately there is no truth to it." Mrs. Vredenburgh then turned her pretty head and set sail on the He de France for other climes, murmuring that Adlai "is a great friend and a great...