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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drought. Hardly had she finished speaking when the rains came-so heavy that roads turned to sludge, and the Queen's car barely made it to the airstrip for her flight to Mombasa. But the Masai, water cascading off their lion skins, trudged happily homewards, more loyal than ever to their rainmaking Queen...
...coach fell suddenly ill and someone yelled at Bob Kiphuth, a young physical education instructor: "Get up there in a hurry and direct the swimming squad." Robert John Herman Kiphuth, 27, had never coached swimming before, but he got up there and started directing. He has been doing it ever since. In 41 years as coach of the Yale team. Kiphuth has amassed an unparalleled record in sport: 522 victories in dual swimming meets, only twelve defeats...
...Plaza's Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy triumph. But tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), frizzle-topped Edith Piaf wears a shapeless black silk dress and sings the tune (which she herself wrote twelve years ago) as a lament for everything that ever went wrong with love in Paris or anywhere else. Aging (43) Piaf seems hardly to have changed since she first appeared in Manhattan in 1947. Suave Vicky and wriggling Lilo only serve to set her off as what she is: the best torch singer in the business...
Piaf sings all this with the authority of a little girl who used to sing for her supper on the streets of Montmartre, but was too proud to pick up the pennies. A friend did that for her. Nor did her later success ever take her far from trouble. A 1949 airplane crash killed World Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, who is still remembered as her great love. A marriage to French Singer Jacques Peals ended in divorce. Says she: "I am a very faithful woman, very serious about marriage. I have a lover who came with me to America...
...Piaf. like almost everyone who has ever heard her, Vicky is one of her fans. "Piaf." says she. "has the soul of all the poor. She gives you goose pimples...