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...lunch. It was 1960 and H.D., as she signed herself, had come home briefly from Europe to receive the Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died the following year, at age 75, in Zurich, within a circle of admirers and close to Bryher, nee Annie Winifred Ellerman, the energetic heiress and novelist (The Fourteenth of October) who had been her lover and benefactor for more than 40 years...
...tragic neuroses. Reading Rose's work is like turning a valentine to find graffiti underneath: not a pleasant experience, but a compelling one. The couples could not have been better chosen. Each contains one famous waiter: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens and George Eliot, nee Marian Evans. Three of the unions were devoid of passion, one degenerated into widely publicized scandal, and the sole happy one was the most shocking of all. George Eliot dared to live with a man without the sanction of either religion or the state...
...noise above his apartment in Adelphi Terrace, London. At 3 a.m. he sent a note of protest to the disturbers. At 5 a.m. the noise and the party ceased. The party was given by two newlyweds, David Tennant (son of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon) and Mrs. Tennant (nee Hermione Baddeley, actress). They wore orange sleeping suits of silk; the guests, too, came in blazing pajamas; many brought bottles of hair restorers, ink, gasoline, Thames water. Champagne was not lacking. After the party, Mrs. Tennant said: "Bottle and pajama parties ought to be the vogue in weather like the present...
...published in 1961, is still regarded as the definitive English-language work on classic French cuisine. Her 207-part French Chef and subsequent TV series, along with her five books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, earned her two prestigious awards from the French government. Indeed, Californian Child, nee Julia McWilliams, has done more than any other individual of either nation to raise Americans' standards of culinary excellence and persuade them that doing things the French way can be uncomplicated...
...California and Texas. But the divorce trial under way at the Palm Beach County courthouse has, like the town, achieved an overcharged notoriety. For starters there is a prize surname: Herbert ("Peter") Pulitzer Jr., 52, who filed suit to dissolve his six-year marriage to the former Roxanne Dixon, nee Ulrich. Peter is one of Newspaper Publisher Joseph Pulitzer's flock of grandchildren. He has money and local roots old and deep enough to prompt invitations to the oligarchs' parties and all the charity balls. Then there are the grounds for the divorce action. So far Pulitzer...