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People laughed at them, and so finally, after 35 years of trying, Eilshemius quit art. A cranky, messy, bearded bachelor, he lived with a churchmouse of a brother and an old housekeeper in the family's Manhattan brownstone on East 57th Street. The last 20 years of his life were devoted almost exclusively to barren eccentricities designed to promote himself. In endless letters to the newspapers he ranted of his unjust fate. The letters were signed "Flashful Inventor," "Supreme Spirit of the Spheres," or simply "Transcendent Eagle...
...been quietly nursing plans of revolution for 24 years, had skillfully used his official position to recruit younger officers-notably, mercurial Abdul Salam Aref, who became his closest "brother in revolt" and took to proclaiming, "I am Kassem's son." In 1956, at a meeting in his bachelor house on the outskirts of Baghdad, Kassem merged his network with another military conspiracy, became supreme leader of Iraq's "free officers...
Live & Let. In Glendale, Calif., an ad in the News-Press offered for $65 a ''nicely furnished bachelor, one child...
...each penny's increase in the copper price means an extra $10 million a year for Chile. Moreover, Alessandri, who was elected by a Conservative-Liberal coalition, has congressional support from the Radicals, most important of the oppositionists. Dancing with Princess Alexandra at a British embassy party, Bachelor Alessandri, 62, was a picture of relaxed confidence...
Layette. In West Union, Ohio, Bachelor Carey Young Jr., 32, was arrested for breaking into a store, stealing 36 diapers, five bed pads, eight pairs of rubber pants...