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...Dell, 37. Heretofore John's fun-loving, free-swinging cousin, Adolph B. Jr.,*had tended to hog the limelight of the tabloids, but John and Lou Dell won through last week with a knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered and rooted. But the finish lacked punch. "It was all my fault," cried Lou Dell. "All right, honey," comforted Spreckels, "I don't care ... I know that...
...called the Fellowship of U.S.-British Comrades (dues: $4 a year), which had done nothing so far but throw one party for lieutenant colonels and above, ¶ He insisted on so much chicken-in general and saluting in particular that Leghorn G.I.s had nicknamed their main street "Bent Arm Boulevard." ¶ He maintained a Disciplinary Training Camp at Pisa, where G.I. prisoners "get the sweatbox for making a wrong turn. [It] is full of delightful [punishment] routine like cleaning a mess kit with a needle, or walking for hours squatting on the hams and making duck noises...
Along the café terraces of Paris' Boulevard St.-Germain, where people sit, sip, and discuss Picasso, a new story was going the rounds. Picasso (so the story ran) had gone up from Antibes to Vence to see Henri Matisse...
Days of Fear. Through the days of the Indo-Chinese crisis ran a real thread of fear. Rumors of De Gaulle's return to politics ran through Paris. (It is a fact that he is leaving his retreat at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises for an apartment in the Boulevard de Courcelles...
...great grandstand rose at Mexico City's Balbuena Airport. Along the road to town, workers paved the walks and turfed the unkempt fields. In the city, little groups of men labored past midnight, filling in every last crack in the pavement that Harry Truman would ride over. Every boulevard shrub had been freshly manured to make the capital a little greener for its first visit, this week, from a U.S. President...