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World War I: Enlisted as a cavalry private, he was wounded, later sent to Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. Returned to the trenches with a Moroccan regiment, won his first Croix de Guerre (he now has three, embellished with 17 palms). Fought against the Riffian tribes of Abd el Krim in Morocco in the 1920s, stayed on as a native-affairs officer. Speaks Arabic and the Berber dialects fluently...
...wildest summer. I came back first class with a lady tennis player from Santa Barbara just to study the decadent bourgeoisie. I engaged in a Dada manifestation and helped put on a Stravinski ballet. I interviewed Abd-el-Krim in Morocco and wrote a play called Shall Be the Human Race but there's nothing worth seeing in Europe except the Ballet Russe and the révolution mondiale...
...Dubucq de Rivery (1763-1817), cousin of Napoleon's Empress Josephine, had passivity thrust upon her. Abducted by Corsairs while en route home to Martinique from a convent in Nantes, Aimée was given as a present to Turkish Sultan Abd ül Hamid I, who popped her into his harem. At first, convent-bred Aimée violently resisted a fate worse than death, but at last came to agree with the Arab maxim: "Woman succeeds where man fails, for woman knows when to yield." Aimée became the Sultan's favorite, and lived...
...Roger Le Morvan, 26-year-old Parisian electrician, who had had former Record Holder Georges Michel as his trainer, had refreshed himself en route with glucose and champagne. Tiring in the last minutes, he could not match Abd el Rahim's sprint, climbed onto the beach just ten minutes after the Egyptian...
...Mara'i Hassan Hamad, 41, an Egyptian army warrant officer, who, like Winner Abd el Rahim, had faithfully observed five prayer periods a day, trained on a diet of sesame oil, sweets and nuts...