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Duff Cooper's game book.(The Duff Cooper Diaries)(Book review)
That Alfred Duff Cooper had very small feet strikes me as one of the most emblematic facts about him, but I'm hard pressed to say just how. Certainly it's tempting to quip, in view of his prodigious adulteries, that this helps explain why he was rarely on them, spending as much time in the sack as the grandes horizontales of his beloved Paris. One might also remark that Cooper nevertheless left big shoes to fill: His too-early death robbed the diplomatic world of an ornament, and the wide circle of his friends and mistresses (to say nothing of his adoring wife) of a magnetic personality. But there's something more nuanced to be said about those feet. They accurately point ...
- Revelation without reflection; High society.(The Duff Cooper Diaries)(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 1, 2005 700+ words
...complaisant ON FEBRUARY 2ND 1933 Duff Cooper writes: "I want to prevent this...erudition of John Julius Norwich, Cooper's son, may have led him to assume...catalogue of sexual conquests. The Duff Cooper Diaries. Edited by John Julius...
- Duff Cooper Prize lectures announced.(John Julius Norwich, Anthony...
- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books May 19, 2004 700+ words
...Geographical Society is to host two lectures in support of the Duff Cooper Prize, one of the oldest and most coveted awards for...Norwich who will talk about his parents Duff and Lady Diana Cooper. The second lecture will be given by Anthony Beevor...
- Lady Diana Duff Cooper.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Rt. Hon. A. Duff Cooper.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Diana & Evelyn. (Diana Cooper, Evelyn Waugh)
- Magazine article from: WWD Fallon, James January 30, 1992 700+ words
...It was extraordinary." Artemis Cooper studied English at Oxford -- a subject...the War: 1939-45," "The Diana Cooper Scrapbook," and "A Durable Fire...will come in handy for that, since Duff Cooper was British ambassador to France...
- LADY DIANA COOPER; BEDSIDE OBSERVATIONS ON THE DUKE, THE DUCHESS AND DOGGIE.
- Magazine article from: WWD McCarthy, Patrick September 13, 1999 700+ words
...most adulated beauty of her generation," Lady Diana Cooper greets her noontime visitor in bed. Swathed in a pale...Windsor, whom Lady Diana and her husband, Alfred (Duff) Cooper, knew intimately as the Prince of Wales, Edward VIII...
- A silly ass, but not a traitor. At last, the real story of PG Wodehouse
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London JAMES CUSICK October 1, 1996 700+ words
...de Gaulle's France in 1944, Duff Cooper, the appointed ambassador, found...Wodehouses. He was not pleased. Duff Cooper, a former Minister of Information...explained. An initial suggestion from Duff Cooper that the Wodehouses were short...
- Taking the Apple.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) February 27, 2004 700+ words
...Spectator, who last night won the Duff Cooper Prize for history with her book...she said in a reference to Duff Cooper, first Viscount Norwich, who...were Antony Beevor, husband of Duff Cooper's granddaughter Artemis, Robert...
Source: HighBeam Research, Duff Cooper's game book.(The Duff Cooper Diaries)(Book review)