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Boredom Deferred. In Chicago, Mrs. Grandoline Yolanda Shalimar Pepper Scarlet Dellis explained why she fired four shots at her husband: "I'm an exotic dancer who's worked in every striptease joint in town ... I like an appreciative audience, and not even my husband can get away with...
Most of Kim's backgrounds (and some of its action) were filmed in India, and M-G-M technicians have done an expert job of blending the studio scenes into the location footage. While the screen overflows with exotic local color, the soundtrack matches its extravagance with Kipling'...
Once accepted, the student embarks on a program tailored to his needs. He can take courses in the most common diplomatic languages, in international trade and finance, in commercial, maritime, and consular law. He may also study such exotic subjects as Hindustani and Icelandic, or Tanganyikan religions.
I was among the 6,000 listeners in Hollywood Bowl who could hardly believe their ears when the exotic [Peruvian singer] Yma Sumac stepped upon that platform and displayed what the critics later so aptly described as "the most phenomenal voice of the generation" . . .
Such swift work was nothing new for American Export. On-the-dot schedules for its "Aces" and 24 all-cargo vessels clear five ships from New York every week. In 1949 American Export completed 160 voyages, carried autos, lubricating oils, tires and EGA foodstuffs to the Mediterranean and India, hauling...