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Hypnotic Spell. Most of Indigo's 372 pages are given over to the complicated feud of Gisele's mother, the bitter widow of a French indigo planter, and the English colony of Amritpore-a war that reaches into the past (since Gisele's father had been the lover of the sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Englishwoman who dominated the colony), and into the future (since Gisele's brother Jacques is befriended and made over by the English in a ceaseless attempt to win him and his precious talents to their side). The plots and subplots that...
...Stalin-Trotsky feud reached a near-explosive point. In this tug of war, Molotov sided with his great and good friend Stalin...
...years Enrico Caruso carried on a feud against his native Naples. In 1901, after his early European successes, the Neapolitans hissed him. Caruso vowed he would never sing in Naples again, would visit his home only "to eat a plate of spaghetti." He kept his vow. During World War I he was begged to sing at Naples' San Carlo opera house for a Red Cross benefit. Caruso wrote a check for 50,000 lire, but refused to sing...
...after C.A.C. straightened him out, he promptly resumed his feud, demanded that C.A.C. squeeze more out of debtors, pay off faster...
...London, the Polish Government in Exile had to replace the almost irreplaceable General Sikorski. Formation of the new Government became a matter of political intrigue. Cabled New York Timesman Raymond Daniell: "General Sikorski's death . . . has precipitated a political feud that might have lain dormant until the Polish Government had returned home after the Allied victory. It is the old struggle between the Left and Right, latent in the political alignments of almost all refugee Governments here...