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Portuguese President Americo Tomas shouted "Wolf! Wolf!" and blasted away at the beast in the bushes, only to discover that he had bagged one of General Francisco Franco's hunting dogs. Otherwise, the partridge shoot at the Spanish state hunting preserve near Ciudad Real went smoothly, if somewhat noisily, as Host Franco, looking tanned and robust, observed his 74th birthday. President Tomas apologized about the dog, but maybe someone should have apologized to the birds. The twelve guns in the party brought down 1,300 red partridges...
...wedding took place at 14 minutes past midnight on Valentine Day, 1948. Their son was born the following September, and the next year they separated. Gossip columnists, who had promoted the union as a real-life sequel to Cinderella and Prince Charming, billed it subsequently as Beauty and the Beast, casting Win as the brutish, skinflint millionaire...
Beauty & the Beast. In a sense, seeing the totality of Picasso's work establishes the various boundaries of his domain, but it does nothing to diminish the wizardry with which he exploited the subjects that caught his imagination. "Picasso's life work is the greatest enterprise of destruction and creation of forms of our time, and perhaps of all time," said France's Culture Minister André Malraux...
That rare beast, the house literary magazine, has come yawning with some grace from its cave. Two stories, eight poems, and seven photographs form a slim Winthrop House organ, modes in pretensions as well as bulk...
Wilson's story, and incidentally the rest of Lion Rampant, should not be missed. That rare beast, the house literary magazine, has come yawning with some grace from its cave...