People: Feb. 6, 1984

It appears to have been—small cough behind back of the hand—a family affair. In the pre-Reagan-Thatcher days, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Jay, and his wife Margaret were the toast of the New York-Washington social circuit. Then came Mrs. Jay's more or less public affair with Watergate Heavyweight Carl Bernstein, subsequently chronicled with gusto by his former wife Nora Ephron, 42, in the bestselling Heartburn. Now it develops that while Ephron was turning to a novel to get satisfaction, Jay was turning elsewhere. Last week, Jane Tustian, 33, live-in nanny to the...

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