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Shopping by Rolls. Prenuptial partying has been kept to a minimum. There were bridal showers given by Mrs. Elmer Bobst, wife of the ex-chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., and Mrs. Edwin Hilson, a friend of the Duchess of Windsor. Mrs. Hil son also took Julie to lunch at Manhattan's chic Cote Basque-and then swept the bride-to-be off in her chauffeured Rolls to start an afternoon round of shopping. Julie went to Bonniers, Bonwit Teller and Bendel's. Julie's wedding shoes, low-heeled white satin pumps with tiny seed-pearl bows...
...joined the wartime R.A.F. and rose to the position of sergeantpilot. Later he acquired two old Halifax bombers, won some contracts to haul freight during the Berlin blockade, and went on to build an airline. Bamberg became a sterling millionaire. He played polo with Prince Philip at Windsor Great Park, traveled between country manor and luxury London flat in a chauffeured Rolls fitted with telephone, dictating machine and the license plate "H.B. 100." When asked how he had done so well, Bamberg's jaunty reply was: "There's no substitute for getting into business and learning the hard...
...chichi men's shop, Fashion Designer Bernard Lanvin threw a bash at Brasserie Bofinger, one of the newest In restaurants in Paris. It was a time for the boys to shine, but it was an aging lady of 72 who stole the show. The Duchess of Windsor, looking slim as ever in her well-above-the-knee sequin outfit, wowed the crowd by dancing the Jerk with her host...
...royal family. Characteristically, his diary entries during this period bustle with provocative footnotes to history. For example, his interview with the late Queen Mary, who discussed the relations between her husband George and his sons: "She said that the real difficulty had been with the Duke of Windsor and never with 'the present King' [George VI], who always got on well with his father. She added that 'the present King' had been appalled when he succeeded. 'He was devoted to his brother and the whole abdication crisis made him miserable. He sobbed on my shoulder...
...real fascination is its palpable authenticity. Behrman has collected people and experiences like a connoisseur. He has known the rich, the beautiful and the talented, and he appears to have put them into his novel as vividly and intimately as in a diary. Freud, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Arnold Schoenberg and Irving Thalberg make cameo appearances. Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler Werfel, Max Reinhardt, and several society beauties of the '30s are only slightly disguised. The author mocks, but he also burnishes his characters with an élan found all too rarely in current fiction...