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... More than 100 active writers live in and around Hampstead. Helen Craig, who also lives there, has photographed 39 of them for an exhibition that opens today at her studio in Heath Street. Apart from the photographs, taken mainly in the writers' homes, the exhibition includes manuscripts, bookjackets and biographical material contributed by the writers themselves William Empson and his wife ...

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... ALAN VINES rrances new Ambassador in London, M. Geoffroy de Courcel, has been closely associated with General do Gaulle since Wartime days. The Ambassador and his wife, seen in the drawing-room of their official residence in Kensington Palace Gardens, have two sons who go to a day school in Kensington. Muriel Bowen describes her meeting with the Ambassador overleaf ...

... LONDON'S NEW MR. FRANCE Muriel Bowen reports THE NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR, BARON GEOFFROY DE COURCEL, has very soon after his arrival found himself in a similar dilemma to many Londoners. For about three months now he and his wife have had the painters at their house in Kensington Palace Gardens. But unlike most of us M. de Courcel is not exasperated by their long stay, he's not only got to know ...

... LORD KILBRACKEN TALKS TO SIR TYRONE GUTHRIE IT HAD ALWAYS SEEMED TO ME THAT SIR Tyrone Guthrie must make use of Doohat, his family home on the border county of Monaghan, in very much the same way I use Killegar. His work, too, takes him all over the world: to London, to Ontario (where he has special interests), to New York, anywhere. And when an assignment is ended, a contract signed, a ...

... Miss Anne D. Doughty-Tichborne to Jonkheer John Loudon: She is the eldest daughter of Sir Anthony Lady Doughty-Tichborne, Tich- borne Park, Alresford, Hants. He is the son of Jonkheer Mrs. J. IT. Loudon, Grosvenor Square, W.l, and also of Aerdenhout, Holland Payer Miss Margaret Dorothy Anne Iliffe to Lt. Kurt h Sprague: She is the daughter of the late Mr. Mrs, Geoffrey Iliffe, and lives at ...

... by JENNIFER THE annual evening reception given by the Mayor & Mayoress of Westminster at the Savoy is always a colourful and enjoyable affair, the women wearing gay evening dresses and the men their orders and decora tions. This year Mr. David Cobbold is the Mayor and was host to 600 guests, with his charming wife as hostess. Pictures on p. 344-45.) A buffet was arranged around two sides of ...