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...objection was not so much that he had printed a picture of a girl with no clothes on, but that the picture included the convent-educated daughter of Miguel Aleman, who still has a lot of influential friends in Mexico. For years, Mexican publications had hardly printed anything but carefully posed shots of the Aleman family, and ignored the President's lively interest in a succession of actresses and other beauties. Hoy's publisher rapped Editor Pages sharply over the knuckles, told him not to be naughty again. Pages promptly resigned. Six other staff members also quit, including...
Foucauld was something of a problem monk. Postponing his ordination as a priest, he spent three years as a menial for an abbess of a convent at Nazareth...
...Ethel Christie, wife of the man who just vacated the flat. She had been dead for four months. The others proved to be a tall, shapely, Irish girl who worked as a waitress in a cheap truckers' cafe, a young Scottish mother of two, and a convent-educated girl who was six months pregnant when she died...
...days he spent a lot of time at a bar table, occasionally speaking in a low voice to chance acquaintances. Soon shifty-eyed visitors began coming to see him. After that, White took to strolling the streets, inconspicuous in a wrinkled grey suit. From time to time, beside a convent wall or in a park, he met seedy individuals and received small packages in return for bills he peeled from a fat wad of U.S. $100s. At length, the seedy ones led him to houses where he paid big money ($5,000, all told) for big packages. Then, having learned...
Except that she "always wanted to be the boss of everything," Ros showed no particular early theatrical bent. She went to convent schools (Notre Dame Academy in Waterbury and Marymount College in Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y.), and found she could get passing grades without half trying. Instead of going ice-skating on winter afternoons, she sneaked off to sigh at Rudolph Valentino movies...