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...Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, who hit the front pages in the '30s by marrying Heiress Barbara Button, rose from his latter-day obscurity to crush a canard. It was getting around that ex-Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...
Nelson's Hat. The Thing had grown a little less awful as a result of Bikini; its apparently infinite power was finite after all. Le Canard Enchaîné ran a cartoon of a fashionable woman refusing a rendezvous the day before the test: "I really can't tomorrow. I have the end of the world. How about the day after?" Cried Communist Humanité: "The bomb lost some of its prestige. . . . They will no longer be able to play so easily with the nerves and imaginations of people. . . ." Said a disappointed London clerk: "I rather imagined...
...Paris, Ky. He will practice law in Lexington and Frankfort, turn his eager eagle eye on the politics of his home state. At Harvard "Prich" had been particularly famed for one boast: that he would some day be Governor of Kentucky. This he branded last week as a base canard; he just intends to "run for something." With a fair show of diffidence he confided: "My ears are to the ground, but I don't hear any popular clamor...
Cried Paris' famed funny sheet Canard Enchaêné: French lovers of the grape, beware! The Government plans "wine control!" Serious papers paid no attention. Frenchmen growled: Tu parles! (No kidding...
...South's newest anti-Negro canard, supplanting gossip of Eleanor Clubs and the subsequent Disappointment Clubs,* is the rumored organization by Detroit