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Plans for renovating the Kirkland House courtyard "to give it color both in summer and winter," were announced yesterday by Charles H. Taylor, incoming Master...
...Madrid, Movie Director John (The African Queen) Huston strode from a bar to a courtyard next door, with cape and sword braved the rushes of a small bull with blunted horns. When Huston executed a couple of passable pases naturales, café aficionados, astonished at the amateur torero's skill, acclaimed him with "Olé, Juan, olé!" Huston was all for fighting the beast to some sort of finish, but a pressagent rescued the director before he found the pastime goring...
Downstairs, meanwhile, a cluster of anxious monsignors waited for some word. Newsmen gathered in a courtyard. At last Dr. Galeazzi-Lisi came down. "The Holy Father's condition is disquieting but not unhopeful," he said, "so long as there is no heart collapse." Misinterpreting the doctor's last words, an excited Italian newsman breathlessly told his paper that the Pope had suffered a heart attack...
...talk was hard and humorless. Small talk and jokes were ignored. Now and then Mendès rose, went to the window, stared into the courtyard. Adenauer remained seated. Downstairs, Eden waited...
...while accomplices played Yankee Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, fed him cakes and wine sprinkled with cyanide. The dose, "sufficient to kill several men instantly," merely made Rasputin sleepy, so the prince put a bullet into his body. But Rasputin still had the energy to stagger into the courtyard before four more bullets ended the life of pre-Communist Russia's most hated man. Author Youssoupoff, now 67 and living in Paris, often bogs down in mediocre writing and puerile prejudices, but tells a fine, fabulous story...