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Compassionate Empress. President Magloire, 46, Dessalines' 32nd successor, is proud to be as black as his country's great liberators, and like them a military man. He began his career as a cadet in the U.S. Marine-trained army, and by 1950 was a colonel and a power in the country. When President Dumarsais Estime lost the democratic touch and headed toward dictatorship, Colonel Magloire set up a military junta and ousted him. Then by direct popular vote, he was elected President. His strong regime has brought comparative stability; he has launched a $40 million Five Year Plan...
...smokes long cigars, smiles readily and gets along well with folks of any color. On the same day that he unveiled a 16-ft. statue of the Tiger last week. President Magloire significantly saw to it that his wife placed a wreath on the grave of Dessalines' Empress, who gained fame and honor of her own by sheltering in her palace some of the white colonists fleeing from the wrath of her husband's troops...
...What intrigued the self-appointed matchmakers even more was the tune which, by request, a cabaret singer kept repeating: Let's Do It ("Let's fall in love"). On a later evening, Margaret deserted Mark to attend a benefit ice show at London's Empress Hall, was snapped by a photographer as she entered, smiling but without escort...
Sixth Century Constantinople (The Female, by Paul I. Wellman; Doubleday). One more version of the fascinating story of Theodora, the clever charmer who rose from a harlot in the Street of Women to become Justinian's wife and empress of the Byzantine Empire. Full of dancing girls, whores, eunuchs and Byzantine VIPs...
Sarah Bernhardt, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Taft visited The Hights to pay their respects to California's poet laureate, but it became notorious for the succession of girls in their teens and 205 who stayed there and left rapt testimonials. Samples: "I was his Empress and the Hights was our Empire," "Joaquin was such a wonderful lover." Fearing for his own women relatives, Ambrose Bierce wrote down an emphatic promise: "If that woolly wolf, Joaquin Miller, doesn't keep outside the fold, I shall come down and club him soundly...