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...presidency approach, Alemán has tempered, mellowed. When not campaigning, he spends his evenings quietly with political allies or at his spacious Mexico City home, listening to classical recordings with his pleasant wife and young daughter. Weekends, he is in summery Cuernavaca, golfing, visiting friends like Swedish Industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (U.S. black-listed), gazing wryly at the neighboring home of Oppositionist Candidate and ex-Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla...
...Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, 66, onetime naval aide to three Presidents and Prince Axel of Denmark, socialite skipper of the presidential yacht Mayflower, commander of the Scouting Force, U.S. Fleet, was more recently commandant of the Third Naval District, New York...
...praise. But only experts, looking back over Bell's collected works, can appreciate how outspoken he has been about many forgotten figures among literature's briefly great. Occasionally, but not often, Bell reviews at length a book given him for a book-note. One such was Dr. Axel Munthe's recollections, The Story of San Michele (it was neglected by publishers who thought it was a travel book). Bell's favorable comment in the Herald Tribune Books was its only Manhattan review. The book sold 250,000 copies...
Strange Outing. One day in midtrial, Banker John Anderson, friend and confidant of Sir Harry's, took the reporters on an excursion to Hog Island to admire Shangri-La, the fabulous estate of Swedish tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren. U.S. and British black listings keep this nimble friend of Millionaires Hermann Goring, the Duke of Windsor, Sir Harry Oakes and many another in Mexico for the duration, but the reporters found 17 gardeners tirelessly pushing back the lush jungle growth, awaiting the end of the war and the master's return. One or two reporters wondered whether the excursion...
...served overseas in World War I, was managing editor of the now-defunct Vanity Fair in 1920, associate editor of the New Republic from 1926 to 1931. Since then he has been writing the books that have made him the foremost intellectual's intellectual in the U.S. (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, The Triple Thinkers}, now lives quietly with his third wife, Novelist Mary McCarthy, and their polysyllabic four-year-old son in Wellfleet, Mass...