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...royal visitors, and the Asiatic envoys outdid one another in their efforts to entertain the maharaja royally. As usual. Ambassador Ali came out ahead, with an elaborate garden party celebrating the maharaja's 43rd birthday. In the garden behind the receiving line he thoughtfully installed an attic fan. to cool the royal rear. The maharani gamely learned to dance the Cha Cha Cha, while her husband consumed four bottles of champagne and discoursed on the fine points of pigsticking. When the turbaned waiters brought out a large pink and white birthday cake, the band struck up "Happy Birthday...
...water" hit her bungalow and started to rip it to pieces, she and her children rushed to a more solidly built house on higher ground, where about 35 others at the camp had fled. As the water rose, the refugees retreated to the second floor, finally to the attic...
...were terrified, but we couldn't do anything but watch the water coming up toward us. It kept getting higher and higher. When it reached the attic floor we felt the house give a shudder and the whole house collapsed. It just fell apart and all of us went tumbling into a jumble of water, boards and screams...
...shattered village where hysterical Italians watched a British private thumping out Moonlight Becomes You on a piano in the smoking ruins. Near by, a Gurkha battalion had established its GHQ without bothering to check for snipers in the upper room. A British officer sent his aide to inspect the attic, and when the Gurkha returned, Johnston recorded this conversation...
...tends the backyard rose garden himself, officiates at the outdoor barbecue, is never too busy on afternoons at home to play catch with his three boys. Indoors, the large house is cramped with Campy's hobbies. A vast and valuable collection of toy trains clutters the attic; an entire wall of the basement den is covered with carefully tended aquariums of expensive tropical fish. Once the conversation swings around to the bright little creatures, Campy actively resents a change of topic -even to baseball...