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They Slept There. In Fredericksburg, Va., boyhood home of George Washington, police arrested on various charges Clarence Wills Washington, Robert Thomas Washington, and William Washington, the last from Washington...
...didn't satisfy his newspaper instincts and he was lured back into his boyhood occupation by an unusual journalistic opportunity...
Fanatic or not, there is no doubt that Dali can turn it on with words as well as paint. Writes he of the kitchen in his boyhood home: "Behind the partly open kitchen door I would hear the scurrying of those bestial women with red hands; I would catch glimpses of their heavy rumps and their hair straggling like manes; and out of the heat and confusion that rose from the conglomeration of sweaty women, scattered grapes, boiling oil, fur plucked from rabbits' armpits, scissors spattered with mayonnaise, kidneys, and the warble of canaries-out of that whole conglomeration...
...recent progress of French monarchism is the Pretender's cousin and advance agent, Charles, Due de Nemours. Throughout the war, on passports including those of the Vatican and the Knights of Malta, sporting young "Chappy" Nemours has shuttled between London (the late Duke of Kent was his boyhood playmate), Vichy (where Marshal Petain sees him instantly and at length) and Berlin. Chappy has also made his headquarters in Madrid, where he used to visit former U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, relative of Chappy's blonde U.S. wife, the former Peggy Watson of Richmond...
...less sweeping than his other projects-he wants to doctor everybody. Bursting with health himself, Kaiser carries a medicine kit wherever he goes to "look after my folks," often stops in his plants and shipyards to offer pills to gravel-shovelers and executives. This concern goes back to his boyhood: Henry Kaiser believes his mother died too young for lack of medical care...