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Just how odd they were Ryder was finding out for himself. Sebastian's father, Lord Marchmain, lived in Italy with an Italian mistress. His wife lived in Venice with a gentleman poet. ". . . Always drifting about the canals in a gondola with [him]," exclaimed Anthony Blanche, who was as "ageless as a lizard" and knew the family well "-such attitudes, my dear, like Madame Recamier; once, I passed them, and [the] gondolier . . . gave me such a wink. . . . She sucks [men's] blood. You can see the toothmarks all over Adrian's . . . shoulders when he is bathing...
...Stratford-on-Avon estate be preserved as a shrine-"the home of a great English novelist." Preparations were begun last week, 19 years after her death, to auction the place off because royalties from the Corelli books have not been enough to maintain it. With it goes a genuine gondola which she imported (with a gondolier) from Venice...
...1920s he was one of the Army's top airship pilots. Nine years ago he and Captain Albert W. Stevens took an Army-National Geographic Society balloon to 60,613 ft. over South Dakota before the bag ripped and they had to leave their airtight gondola (roared Bill Kepner into his radio mike: "This damned thing has gone nuts!") Not until the gondola had plummeted to 500 ft. did he jump. It was his last big experience with ballooning. Already an airplane pilot, he became one of the Army's best fighter commanders...
...prime favorite with song pluggers, the Waring band has made many tunes go strong, too (Collegiate, In My Gondola, Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More, etc.). The pluggers used to clutter up Fred's Broadway office, but now Fred has a different arrangement. He meets them once a week for lunch in a Broadway Automat cafeteria, talks over their wares, matches them for the check...
...elevator in Paris' Hotel Meurice is frivolous. It looks as much like a gondola as an elevator can. Into it one evening last week stepped two aged Britons-Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax. They alighted at an upper floor and proceeded to the suite of the man who used to be their King-Emperor, now His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor...