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...Present. Some 70 delegations of prostitutes met recently in an old wrestling arena to establish a protective union, which they called "The Federation of All Japan Special Eating and Drinking Establishments Working Girls' Unions." To the embarrassment of Premier Hatoyama's Liberal-Democratic Party, Japan's brothel owners, operating as "The National Venereal Disease Prevention Autonomous Association," showered the city's bars and bordellos with handbills urging pimps and prostitutes to join the government party en masse, to protect their legislative interests from within...
Said one member of the brothel owners' association: "Nobody's panicking...
...environment: "Art is not concerned with environment; it doesn't care where it is. If you mean me, the best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel.* In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in. The place is quiet during the morning hours, which is the best time of day to work. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food and a little whiskey...
...socket. A blond fellow soldier of eroded good looks reveals that a brutal sergeant seduced him into homosexuality. Finally, there is a Polish tart and spy so moved by the lines of suffering in Andreas' face that she forgets her trade and plays Bach to him on the brothel piano...
With fist, boot, pistol and general finagling, he made his way through New York's Tammany Hall, took on a doxy named Fanny White, whom he found in a brothel, earned the enmity of Editor James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald. Bennett called him "Aunfit" for a diplomatic post, so Sickles devised a subtle revenge: when he got to London, he presented his favorite tart of the moment to Queen Victoria as "Miss Bennett...