Vanities

U.S.-BRIT LIT 101

December 1989
Vanities
U.S.-BRIT LIT 101
December 1989

U.S.-BRIT LIT 101

• The highlight of the transatlantic literary-party season was Lord Weidenfeld's seventieth birthday—or, rather, birthdays. In London, there were cocktails at the National Portrait Gallery, celebrating the new septuagenarian and his fortieth anniversary as a publisher. The next week in New York, media mavens Barbara Walters and Lally Weymouth gave a black-tie dinner at Mortimer's. Evangeline Bruce made it all seem connected by attending both—in the same outfit.