Lives. Tallulah Bankhead -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Bruno Bettelheim -- Bing Crosby -- Serge Diaghilev -- Isadora Duncan -- Eleonora Duse -- Douglas Fairbanks -- Margot Fonteyn -- Judy Garland -- Lillian Gish -- Francine Du Plessix Gray -- Katharine Hepburn -- Harry Houdini -- Joseph Jefferson -- Elia Kazan -- The Mitfords -- Scott Peterson -- The Royals, Porfirio Rubirosa -- Diana Vreeland -- Mae West -- The Windsors -- Anna May Wong -- Letters. Who was charles Dickens? -- The years with Thurber -- The house that Gershwin built -- Max and Marjoire: an editorial love story -- Becky in the movies: Vanity Fair -- Parsing the thirties: nearly anything goes -- Analyze that: H.D., Bryher, and Freud -- Astaire to Zopy-Zopy: The international encyclopedia of dance -- Fast-talking dames -- Artists in exile -- The hitmaker: George S. Kaufman -- The storyteller: Rudyard Kipling -- Lit-flicks -- The case of John Steinbeck -- White House whodunits -- Scrutiny bound -- Coda: Personally speaking. Am I Judith Krantz? -- My New York City Ballet -- Ms. Alder, The New Yorker, and me.