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“... is by tradition a predatory and demanding figure, evaded by the victims of her benevolence. And as Rosemary Sullivan remarks in this readable and informative study, Elizabeth and her younger sister ‘acted out a fantasy of social achievement’, orchestrated by their socially ambitious mother. The Ottawa Citizen reported their presentation to the ...”

“... themselves, with a characteristic combination of charm, talent and luck, appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show twice. In Britain, McEwen’s TV show, Hullabaloo, in which he compered and performed, was hugely popular. Van Morrison remembers him as an early influence. But the folk music scene of the early 1960s was fraught with political and artistic division ...”

“... Nazi he had once or twice played in his early days as an actor; he was a scaled down Francis L. Sullivan, managing nevertheless to be surprisingly successful in finding partners. Not invariably, though. Sometime in the 1970s he was in a New York bath house where the practice was for someone wanting a partner to leave the cubicle door open. This Schlesinger ...”