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...collectors and plain readers of The Darling Buds of May must respectfully disagree with Pop. The story of how Cedric, the tax man, stays for dinner chez Larkin. and stays and stays only to be subverted by food, drink, love and the Larkin clan's infectious lust for life, makes H. E. (for Herbert Ernest) Bates's novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years...
...Four Communist Parties were unrepresented at the most recent gathering of the clan in Moscow, either because of inability to "preserve their organization in the face of repressions (e.g., Iran, the Philippines and the Union of South Africa), or through lack of even minimum support (e.g., Ireland...
Things began on Friday afternoon, when a friend in Harvard's administrative hierarchy slipped him the word that he didn't get into Eliot House. For Mansley--the Montebank clan's silver-spoon-fed youngest generation (St. Mark's and BUtterfield 8)--it was a deliberate slur on his urbanity. Shaken and embittered and haunted by the persistent spectre of anachronism, Mansley did something a Montebank would never do; he went to the ISA Fair...
...drunkard whose most cutting insult is to call someone "cheerful." His disillusioned wife Sylvia once took him for a big social cheese, but now knows him for an ineffectual mouse. Their son John, a taut, brooding boy of 14, and his nondescript little sister round out the unhappy Hunter clan...
...Manhattan, the first lady of Democratic politics. Eleanor Roosevelt, happily got together with her four far-ranging sons-John, James, Elliott and Franklin D. Jr.-for a rare family portrait. Then the Roosevelt clan headed for Broadway to attend the opening of Sunrise at Campobello (see THEATER). At final curtain, first-nighters gave a standing ovation to Mrs. Roosevelt, who had seen the play from the next to the last row of the theater...