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Fire from the Belly. In Britain's finest hour, Low spurred the nation on. "All behind you, Winston," read the caption beneath one famous wartime cartoon, showing the Prime Minister at the head of a troop of resolute Britons, rolling up sleeves against the dirty job ahead. This must have pleased Churchill mightily; in other times, he had been one of Low's particular targets. "You can't bridle the wild ass of the desert," said Churchill after one painful portrait, "still less prohibit its natural heehaw...
...LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. 388 pages. Holt, Rinehart and Winston...
...dinner parties that night was given by Effie's mother, Mrs. John R. Crawford, and her husband for 250 of Effie's young friends at grey, sprawling Bailey's Beach Club; there were other dinners for "young adults"-and some for less young ones, such as Winston Churchill's ebullient son Randolph, 52, who flew over from London with an eight-week-old pug puppy he had brought for Janet Auchincloss's mother...
Married. Stephanie Wanger, 20, daughter of Actress Joan Bennett and Film Producer Walter Wanger; and Frederick Guest II, 25, investment banker-son of Socialite Winston Guest; in one of Manhattan's gayest summer weddings, attended by the Maharajah of Jaipur, and including Prince Juan Carlos, son of the Spanish Pretender, as an usher, after which the newlyweds took off for a year-long honeymoon...
...After the war they start life anew, with 500 gold sovereigns saved from the looters by an aged Kaffir retainer. And so it goes in plummy neo-Hemingway prose, with three dozen major characters, 189 speaking parts, thousands of extras, and big-name guest stars playing themselves-War Correspondent Winston Churchill, Army Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle, Stretcher-Bearer Mohandas Gandhi...