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Maria's benefactor is a dapper millionaire banker from Healdsburg, Calif, named Benjamin Bloom. "Benny," as he is known to everybody in San Salvador, built the hospital 22 years ago, and gave it to the government. His one proviso: that he (and after his death, his wife Aline) should have a free hand in running...
...world as his "best pupil." Eliot breezed through his course in three years, spent the fourth year working for his M.A. But he was no bookworm. Although he was shy, he made a point of going to dances and parties: Poet Conrad Aiken, a fellow student, recalls seeing tall, dapper Tom Eliot for the first time reeling out of the office of the Harvard Lampoon, where a punch party was in roaring progress...
...Fall from Fortune. A few days later, on a telephoned tip, two Paris police inspectors spotted a dignified, dapper little father walking his boys (age 4 and 12) in the sunny Bois. They waited till he was sitting pina?" they alone at a asked. cafe. "C'est moi," "Monsieur answered Della-le petit gros, "I'll follow you. But please don't tell my boys what I've done." At police headquarters the inspectors found that their prisoner was a Corsican refugee from the police of Marseille, who wanted him for the murder...
...November, with his club floundering badly it became necessary for dapper little Conny Smythe to throw his weight (165 Ibs.) around. Like Little Lord Fauntleroy gone amuck, he lit into his blubbery, 197-lb. goalie, Turk Broda, and ordered him to melt down to 190, or else. He benched Broda, threatened to bench four others...
Outside the gloomy Pierre-Levée prison in Poitiers, where Marie Besnard awaited trial, her dapper attorney Henry de Cluzeau offered what was perhaps the only possible defense. "In this country of good wines and fine living," said he, "one might possibly conceive of one murder, two murders, even three murders. But eleven murders? Preposterous...