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...British diplomat. But his long career in politics and foreign policy involved problems of substance more than niceties of style. An important, long chapter of British history closed last week when Robert Anthony Eden, the first Lord Avon, died at age 79 of liver failure at his manor house in Alvediston, Wiltshire...
...main release for the group is simple violence. Between them the members of the band have chalked up over a dozen arrests on such charges as assaulting a police officer and possession of amphetamines. Last year Skynyrd ruined more than half the exercise machines at Nashville's Spence Manor Hotel. During a recent trip to Bristol, England, Van Zant threw an oak table out a fifth-story hotel window. "We were just having fun, letting off pressure," he remarked afterward. "It was funny when the cops came in and looked at us like we were mad dogs...
...Pieces. So does Sir John, for when first encountered in this skillful if silly sequel, he is languishing in his manor house back in Merrie Olde, yearning for the great plains and the ennobling wisdom of the red man. Also, presumably, his pectorals have not had a good workout since he returned home. So Morgan journeys back to America and goes out West, where he discovers his tribesmen in a sorry state, chased off their modest preserves by a bunch of scurvy trappers. Morgan sets about helping the Indians vanquish their oppressors...
...only question to ponder in Something's Afoot is which guest at a mid-'30s English country manor will be stiffed next, and how. Will the hilarious mode of demise be an exploding balus trade, a poisoned dart, a lethally hid den gas vent or what? As for plot, the maze is the message...
...Margaret-for the third time in three years-on a vacation to the Caribbean island of Mustique, where the Snowdons keep a four-bedroom retreat. Back home, according to London's News of the World, Roddy has had Margaret out on weekends at his country digs, a seedy manor house near Bath that he and friends have turned into a commune...