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When a torrid billet-doux she once wrote to Dr. Christiaan Barnard hit the Italian papers, Gina Lollobrigida filed a loud complaint. La Lollo explained that she had written the scorcher in English, hardly her best language; it had then been translated into German by Quick magazine and finally put back into her native tongue by the Italian press. The result, she said, was something less than accurate. Whatever the message, Gina is suing both Barnard and his exwife, who published the letter in her memoirs. She loved the surgeon once, Gina confesses, but left him because...
...first met Bud Collins, who writes for the Boston Globe, at a professional tennis tournament at Longwood last summer. It was the same day that a letter had appeared on the Globe's editorial page. somewhat of a billet-doux to Collins from Mrs. J. D. Garrott. It was a masterpiece of outraged matronhood...
French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville sat deep in thought, his wavy white head bowed over the text of the speech he was about to deliver to the United Nations General Assembly. Behind him, Russian U.N. Representative Nikolai Fedorenko and his French opposite number, Roger Sey-doux, were engaged in eager conversation. As Couve read on, the two men behind him suddenly smiled and raised their hands-thumb to forefinger-in the universal gesture of happy agreement. Then Couve rose to demand that the U.S. make a "new move" to end the war in Viet...
Love is blind: he cannot see her indifference. He dashes off a burning billet-doux. But she seems to miss the point. "Your letter," she cheerfully replies, "was well phrased." He rents a room that looks right into hers, makes friends with her family, pops over for dinner daily. But the closer he comes the more distant she be comes. One night at the cinema, overstimulated by Les Nouvelles de Fox Movietone, he manfully attempts to smooch. She brushes him away like a mosquito...
...philosopher-peer sent Moscow a plea for moderation that prompted Khrushchev's first reaction to the U.S. Cuban blockade, hinting that a summit might be useful. Later, when Moscow backed down. Russell had extravagant praise for Khrushchev's "sanity and magnanimity." Kennedy's first billet-doux from Bertie labeled the blockade "a threat to human survival," and drew a curt snub. Undismayed, the peacemaker of Penrhyndeudraeth churned out more letters...