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Died. Guy W. (for Warren) Ballard, 60, onetime mining engineer, more recently (with his priestess wife) the "Accredited Messenger of the Ascended Masters of the Mighty I AM Presence" (a psycho-religious cult abjuring alcohol, narcotics, tobacco, onions, garlic); from a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Grey-haired, pink-tied, white-suited Messenger Ballard owned and drove, with Wife Edna and Son Donald, four high-priced, canary-yellow automobiles, one with a concert harp strung on behind, spreading through the U. S. the doctrine of I AMery...
Second newcomer was Italian-born Soprano Hilde Reggiani, hit of last year's Chicago opera season. Small, plump, 25, she cooed a coy Gilda to Lawrence Tibbett's towering Rigoletto, hit super-high Ds and Es with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...
Marcel Tabuteau likes nothing better than to fall reverently to sleep on the table after a Herculean meal and a bottle of wine. Says he, holding up his thumb and forefinger in an expressive circle: "A little garlic? M'sieu, there is no such thing as a little garlic...
...familiar gypsy trick is to enter a grocery store, wait until proprietor and clerks are occupied with important customers, then tuck turnips, garlic, apples, other staples under the ample gypsy blouse. Japan, adept at this gypsy technique, last week took advantage of France's and England's busy dickerings with Italy and Germany to slip seven small potatoes-the Spratly Islands-under her kimono...
...Duchess of Windsor was last week reported to be eating garlic, long esteemed by Koreans as an aid to fertility. The Duchess was one of the "twelve most glamorous women in the world" invited to a tea given by Lady Mendl in Paris for Dr. H. B. Hauser, Hollywood dietitian.* At the tea, Dr. Hauser talked about food. He accused his twelve fellow guests of "sinful eating," promised them that they "could retain their glamor for a much longer time" by eating simpler foods and more vegetables. Reported Dr. Hauser: "All were serious and the Duchess of Windsor the most...