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Between the Bean-Rows...
...Patrician Rebel. When the duchess heard of Bernardez' arrest, she still had time to flee. Instead, she chose to stay. When she was nine and a convent student, Luisa Maria had upset a plate of bean soup in protest against the quality of convent food. Reprimanded, she upset the inkwell on the mother superior's desk. Last week, still a rebel, the duchess made the rounds of Madrid's foreign embassies and newsmen, hoping that publicity would help her arrested friends...
Yesterday's fire was described by an observer as being "slow, stubborn, and smoky." It begin at approximately 1 p.m. yesterday afternoon and was still smouldering 11 hours later. Over 1,000 gallons of soy bean foam were poured into the blaze...
...Very curious," said the Englishman. "First the man calls out a number, and you put a bean on it. Then he calls another number and you put another bean on it . . . until at last a lady screams, 'Bingo!' and everybody else cries,'Aw, hell!' Very curious place, America...
Even before Author Anaïs Nin (rhymes with bean) had found a commercial publisher for her work, her name was a password among the avantgarde. Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller proclaimed her unpublished diary worthy to "take its place beside the revelations of St. Augustine, Petronius, Rousseau, Proust and others." By 1944 Paris-born Author Nin had arrived in Greenwich Village, privately published three books, and decided to "convert and transpose the diary of 65 volumes into a full, long novel . . ." Like her other two published novels Ladders to Fire (1946) and Children of the Albatross...