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...York by clandestine carriers as diverse as diplomatic pouches and the Air France stewardess caught three years ago with the stuff in her bra. Balding little Louis Lavalette, chief of the police judiciare for Southern France, has long had a good hunch who was behind the operation: "Monsieur Jean" Cesari, a quick-witted courtly Corsican who, in 20 years of flitting through the Marseille milieu with few visible sources of income, has nonetheless managed to acquire both a 1,000-acre Riviera estate and a handsome $50,000 villa near Aubagne guarded by five fierce police dogs...
When Lavalette's agents seized 242 lbs. of morphine base concealed in a cargo of goatskins from Turkey eleven months ago, the chief decided enough was enough, set out to nail Cesari once and for all. He disguised a score of Marseille cops as everything from priests and petanque players to taxi drivers and dockers, often had them make quick changes at midday while they shadowed Cesari and his henchmen. Several times they discovered raw morphine on incoming freighters ticketed to Cesari's hirelings (one shipment was packed in a carton of snails). But the police were unable...
...Veritable Factory. Veran told his neighbors he planned to raise chickens and vegetables, but in fact he soon began receiving regular visits from Cesari and curious deliveries from a variety of vehicles. Police agents furtively photographed all the visitors to the farmhouse until Lavalette had what he happily called "an international family album of drug smugglers." Then he moved in for the kill...
Puccini: Madame Butterfly (Anna Moffo, Cesare Valletti, Rosalind Elias, Renato Cesari. Fernando Corena; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor, 3 LPs). A young cast attempts to filter the turgid dramatic tars so often found in Puccini's graceful "thread of smoke." as he called it. The result is a bright and bracing version, full of rarely realized charms. Soprano Moffo's Cio-Cio-San is vocally arresting, more woman than Japanese doll...
...Divorce Pioneer de la Revera sought out the Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. They placed him in contact with the proper authorities and upon simple declaration that he wished a divorce he received it within 20 minutes. The fee: 15?. "Now I can marry Martha!" exclaimed Senor Cesari Alvarez de la Revera, and within 24 hours...