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...Soon afterward, the ambassador returned to Cairo to voice his protest in person to Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi. Fawzi cut him short by pointing out that diplomatic protocol permits a non grata ambassador to see a Foreign Minister for only one reason-to say goodbye. Spluttering Tugay thereupon gave a farewell banquet to which not one Egyptian was invited. "You will not see me again in this dirty place," he told his guests...
...store heiress, was as fat as butter, and slim, gum-chewing daughters of plain people were wont to gaze at her newspaper pictures and cry with feline contentment: "She's got money, but look at that shape." When pretty Barbara grew older, she reduced until her bones showed. Afterward, she was sick a lot. Between bouts in expensive hospitals she wandered wanly around Europe, wearing jewels and Paris dresses and collecting husbands (two princes, one count and Movie Actor Gary Grant) as befitted a member of international society. But none of the marriages worked...
...Back in Paris in 1944 he was wounded in a mysterious street shooting. But Rubi was undismayed. He married French Actress Danielle Darrieux (a collector's item), and capped this by marrying Doris ("Richest Girl in the World") Duke. During that ceremony, he insolently smoked a cigarette, and afterward, in Miss Duke's fond words, "Big Boy passed out in my arms...
When he was called on for a toast, U.S. Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen raised his glass to "justice." Soon afterward Deputy Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov, the only Red army marshal never invited by the party leaders to lead the Red army parade, was asked for a toast. He announced that he would go along with Bohlen's toast. "What's the matter, Zhukov?" taunted Partyman Mikoyan, "can't you think up a toast of your own?" The marshal glared at Policeman Beria's friend. "I repeat," he said, "I wish to support the toast to justice...
...fourth match, Hoad faced Trabert on a soggy, rainswept court. "It was," said former Australian Champion Jack Crawford afterward, "the greatest tennis I have ever seen anywhere in the world." It was a battle of slam-bang serves, whistling forehands and slashing backhands by. the two hardest hitters in amateur tennis today. And when it was over, young Hoad had squared matters at two-all after a three-hour battle...