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...clock one morning last week, Yacef's baraka ran out. Acting on an informer's tip, green-bereted paratroopers of the Foreign Legion rushed into the Casbah and smashed in the door of No. 3 Rue Caton. As Paratrooper Lieut. Colonel Jean Pierre and one of his sergeants broke in, Yacef and his girl friend Zohra scrambled through a trapdoor into a secret chamber above the stairwell of the house. Before he slammed the trapdoor shut, Yacef cut loose with a burst of machine-gun fire, then tossed down a hand grenade that went off in the paratroopers...
...solved the star problem by coaxing ageless Ballerina Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks) back into the fold to be guest star. It also commissioned Broadway-famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille to do a new number, Harvest According, and got its own ballet master, Edward Caton, to whip up another, Triptych. It was again scheduling an "American Composers Night," when Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Virgil Thomson would conduct their own ballets...
Married. Captain Bruce Alva Gimbel, 32, ATCman and merchant princeling, eldest son of Bernard F., autocrat of all the Gimbels (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Ave., etc.); and Barbara Ann Poulson Caton, 24; both for the second time; in Long Beach, Calif...
Died. Will Caton, 66, ace breeder and driver of harness horses ; after long illness; in Cleveland. As a 16-year-old, Caton drove at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, was straightway hired by the late Tsar of Russia. After eleven years at the royal reins he signed with a Russian nobleman at an unheard-of guarantee ($20,000 a year and 15% of his winnings). Captured by Bolsheviks in 1917, he worked as a prisoner on a model stock farm. After three years he returned to the U.S.; won the 1932 Hambletonian ; rolled his employers' total...
Died. Anning Smith Prall, 66, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, six-time (1923-35) Representative from New York's eleventh Congressional District; in Boothbay Harbor, Me. Died-Mrs. Delia Spencer Caton Field, 84, widow of Chicago Department Store Owner Marshall Field; in Beverly, Mass. Mrs. Field was first married to Arthur J. Caton, Chicago corporation lawyer, who died in 1904. A year later she married Merchant Field, who died...