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Chips Channon eating ice-cream with Tallulah Bankhead in 1926
Credit: Channon Family Archive
From the moment he came to Europe in late 1917 as a volunteer for the American Red Cross, based in Paris, Chips Channon had entrées to high society and through it to the cream of the literary and artistic world across the continent.
The bolded text in the following entries indicates information that has never been seen before and gives a flavour of the range and celebrity of the sort of people he knew.
However, one character, little known today, was the Anglican priest-turned-Roman Catholic Montague Summers, a man of letters who was also the translator into English of books on witch hunting and vampires, and as these extracts show, he and Channon had another, even more peculiar, interest in common. The extracts also give a flavour of how completely candid Channon was about himself and those he observed. ....

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