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...litter of facts. Reunion concerns the get-together, eight years after, of eight survivors of a battle-scarred company. In the cast: the rising young lawyer with a beautiful wife and a not-so-beautiful Greenwich Village mistress, the ex-sergeant who plays the horses and the fillies, the gentleman farmer whose wife is unfaithful (he encourages it), the smalltown publisher whose wife is also unfaithful (he would deplore it), and Homer Aswell, who believes he is dead. Miller relentlessly records everything-the brand of cigarettes they smoke, the way they like their Martinis, the jobs they had, the girls...
...Like a Gentleman. At the news of the arrests, Piccioni's father, who only a week before had resigned as Foreign Minister in order to stand by his son's side, promptly suffered a nervous collapse. Piero, however, submitted quietly enough. At the big grey prison where he was locked in a cell just vacated by a Sicilian accused of murder, he refused to send out for special meals, ate instead the plain prison fare of boiled beef and bread. "This is as good a time as any to follow the diet my doctor recommended," he said...
...nightclubs that a warrant had been issued for him. His first request was for a suit of prison clothes. "This gabardine I am wearing is newly cleaned and pressed," he explained, "and I don't want to get it dirty. I want to leave here like a gentleman.'' One of Montagna's first visitors was a handsome blonde driving a sleek Alfa Romeo, who was promptly turned away by the prison guards when she tried to leave him a bouquet of red carnations to decorate his cell...
Recapturing the Loot. Behind them the exile seekers left some $18 million worth of land, city real estate, factories, cars and bank accounts. During his time in office, Arbenz emerged as the owner of a $3,000,000 cotton plantation; his Interior Minister turned into a gentleman-farmer with two coffee fincas; another pal acquired two mansions. "Progressive capitalists" who cooperated with the Reds got rich fast. With the owners gone, what was to be done with all this property...
There have been Maybanks in South Carolina since 1670. Both Burnet and Rhett are maternal family names famous in ante-bellum days. One ancestor, William Rhett, served as Vice Admiral of the colony, cleared the Carolina coast of pirates and hanged Gentleman Freebooter Stede Bonnet at Charleston in 1719. Another ancestor was the Landgrave Thomas Smith, who took his title from the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which Philosopher John Locke wrote when he was secretary to the lords proprietors. Still another ancestor was fiery U.S. Senator R. Barnwell Rhett, "the father of secession," who refused, out of respect...