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...Kindly Ones, by Anthony Powell. The author's familiar gallery of upper-class English clowns, cuckolds and bounders in the not entirely comic opera that was England between the wars...
...supermarkets in Europe alone. Among his holdings: the U.S.'s National Tea Co., Canada's Loblaw Groceterias, Australia's Tip Top Bakeries, Britain's huge (more than 200 subsidiaries) Associated British Foods Ltd. and London's staid old Fortnum & Mason store in Piccadilly, where upper-class Britons have bought their Yorkshire pies and potted shrimp since...
...friends at Magdalen College, Oxford. Their nicknames are "Kitten," "Bouncer" and "Puss" (Wilde's was "Hosky"). Wilde's active homosexualism is not thought to have begun until years later; nothing is to be inferred from cute nicknames or cuddly phrases beyond the surrogate sexuality common to young upper-class British males in Victorian times. The public-school youth of those years lived a womanless life from the time he left the nursery till he was ready to marry, and Wilde was merely one side of the Victorian coin whose obverse was that ascetic, womanless hero, General Charles ("Chinese...
...bomb blast (mushrooms of diamonds rising from a ruby earth) won Britain's "Jewel of the Year" award. Then glaring out at of the the audience in a posh London showroom where his nuclear nugget was on display, King dropped another wee bomb by deploring "the tendency of upper-class women to wear dreary strands of pearls all the time." Totally unruffled was the conservatively dressed, pearl-wearing woman at whom his remarks were aimed: Lady Dorothy Macmillan, wife of the Prime Minister, who once told a reporter, "I regard clothes as my husband regards food - necessary...
...receive Jackson, calls him "the all-night psychiatrist." Make Love Now. Jackson stays in business because his audience finds the program engrossing and totally unpredictable, but he also does his best to dispense free comfort and wisdom to both callers and listeners. His deep, mature, soothing and mellifluous upper-class English voice sounds like Harold Macmillan giving advice to Laertes. He is Fatherhood itself to women in trouble. He recently talked a 15-year-old pregnant child into waking up her parents and telling them the unfortunate news. "Whatever you do, ignore their first reaction," he advised...