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Bowditch's first voyage took him to the French Isle of Bourbon (now Reunion) in the Indian Ocean. It was exotic after Salem, but not as exotic as Bowditch seemed to the French when he blushed at their conversations. "Il n'a pas encore perdu sa pucelage," a Frenchman explained to a French lady. "Quelle âge avez-vous, monsieur?" she asked Bowditch. "Twenty-three." The French lady threw up her hands: "C'est une chose absolument impossible de conserver la pucelage á cette...
...dropped out after a phone call to his wife, one fell asleep, three appeared still sober after seven drinks. Shouted one: "Here they feed me full of this blooming bourbon when they ought to know from my looks that I am a Scotch drinker pure and simple...
...glossy, soft-chinned Comte de Paris, 34, exiled Bourbon pretender to the French throne, would dearly love to have Vichy give it to him even if no real power went with it. Last week he addressed an epistle to all Frenchmen from Rabat, Morocco. Said...
Born. To Henri, Count of Paris, France's Bourbon-Orleans pretender, and Isabelle of Orleans & Bragance: twins, Michel and Jacques, their seventh and eighth children; in French Morocco...
...Sleek, Bourbon-faced John Kendrick Bangs, who died in 1922, was a humorist, a lecturer, an editor, a critic, a librettist, a politician-and successful as all six. Lillian Russell played in his chipper Gilbertian revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded...