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Here is a most interesting war letter from a friend of mine, a young officer in the British Army and a nephew of Lady Diana Duff Cooper. His father was killed in the last war and, as you will see, he came very close to being killed in this...
Last week, at the Coq Rouge, swank Manhattan supper club, Bradshaw Crandell's nominee became 1939's official No. 1 Debutante, successor to the glamor crown of last year's Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. Of 300 debutantes asked to rate their choices by the Coq Rouge's pressagent, 95 had answered. They gave Miss Plunkett 72 votes, 20 more than brunette Patricia Suydam, who ran second...
Cooper. Into action on the U. S. front went Alfred Duff Cooper, the Conservative statesman who last year resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest to Prime Minister Chamberlain's "surrender" at Munich. He arrived in Manhattan with his beauteous actress wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, to tour the land and deliver 40 lectures (for a "very substantial fee," his agent said...
...Duff Cooper's first contribution was a press interview in which he announced his belief that the War will be ended, soon or late, by a revolution in Germany of the Right, joined in by the German Army. "National Socialism," said Lecturer Duff Cooper, "is a revolutionary force, a form of Bolshevism, and now the outer mask has been dropped. Many Germans, who had been told that they were the world's bulwark against Communism, now see that they have been made the allies of Communism. And it is well to remember that the Right in Germany...
...Winston Churchill's big blond son Randolph, 28, to the Hon. Pamela Digby, 19, eldest daughter of horsy Edward Kenelm Digby, Baron Digby. During the service Winston wept, but as he left the Queen Anne style St. John's church in Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with...