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Their stronghold was Texas and their Joan of Arc was a Dallas housewife named Mrs. Bobbie Woodward. Mrs. Woodward, 24, and mother of two, was no Ingrid Bergman. But she had a nice pair of legs and a stubborn spirit. She saw no reason why she should hide her legs under long skirts, why her draftsman husband should be put to the expense of buying her a new wardrobe, or why the women of Texas should be pushed around by a bunch of Paris and New York designers...
...described by a recent victim: five to 15 hours of interrogation daily; during questioning prisoner sits under blinding arc lamps, hands flat on table; food is two thin slices of bread, jug of hot water daily, elaborately served by white-capped chef with retinue...
...moneyman is Jacques Coeur, royal financier of Charles VII (the weak Charles of Joan of Arc's day). Joan has long since been burned at the stake in Rouen, but the wicked English still hold the city, and one of Jacques' jobs is to turn them out. Another is to find Charles a new mistress. Along a country road comes golden-haired Valerie Maret, beautiful in her tender innocence and tattered cloak. "By St. Martin of Tours," cries Jacques. "Remarkable! There can be no doubt about it. Yes, my argus-eyed Nicolas, this...
Gunther starts his zip-clip saga in California, the Golden State ("ripe, golden, yeasty"), swings a great northeasterly arc across the Middle West to the Atlantic, drops south into the Cotton Belt, winds up down Texas-New Mexico-Arizona way, scattering his judgments as he goes. Samples...
...Department does not think that all U.S. elms will die of disease, as did nearly all chestnut trees a generation ago. It does believe that the Gothic elm avenues in many towns will disappear, and it advises city landscapers that elms arc poor investment...