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...Beauty and order are inseparable." So Portugal's dour, scholarly Premier António de Oliveira Salazar is fond of saying. As a spangled religious procession wound through a Lisbon park, both these elements of his 14-year-old clerico-fascist regime were evident. Beauty was represented by the silken banners and swinging censers, order by the plainclothesmen of the dreaded P.V.D.E. (Police of Vigilance and Defense of the State...
Fearing the wrath of their separate employers, they fled to Switzerland by separate routes. But Casanova was waylaid by a lady, arrived a day too late. Austrian agents had done away with Henriette. On a window in her room he found scratched her fond farewell: "Adieu my love Henriette...
...remembered it (in his journal): "I had no vices but was thoughtless and pensive, fond of shooting, fishing and riding ... as active and agile as a buck." He married a girl named Lucy and opened' a general store in Henderson, Ky., which flopped from the first. Audubon had to go hunting to fill the cupboard...
...prized possessions: an immoral Mexican hairless dog and an urn containing the ashes of his late wife. The urn was lost in a saloon, but young Gene finally inherited the Mexican hairless, which was named Maximilian. From another source he acquired a parrot named Molly, which was fond of mulberries and, much to the consternation of a neighbor's chickens, liked to hang upside down from the branches of a mulberry tree. Molly had been trained by a lady known locally as French Marguerite. Her habits "bewildered the virtuous and provincial hens and caused them to molt before their...
...advice is sympathetic, but not syrupy. Recently a girl wrote her: "I went out with a young man of whom I'm very fond . . . I found it necessary to take several cocktails in order not to appear unsophisticated, although I am not given to drink. Did I do wrong?" Replied Dorothy Dix: "Quite probably...