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...most prominent and prosperous farmer in the district, former Mayor Johannes Steenbock occupies one of the handsomest houses in the tiny Schleswig-Holstein village of Bark. Its tall, sloping roof covers two attic floors and provides frequent shelter for refugee farmworkers streaming into Germany from the Russian-held East. The refugees, like Farmer Steenbock's large family, find plenty of room on the lower floor and seldom, if ever, visit the attics...
...word went out among the live-wire jive set: hear Brubeck. At 31, Dave Brubeck of lone, Calif, is best known on the West Coast, but his piano playing has begun to get around. To his admirers, it is not only a brand-new style, it is the handsomest stuff since the birth of bop. In one of Manhattan's basement jazz dens last week, Brubeck and his quartet gave the East an earful...
...Khan. Escorted by a group of Spanish playboys, Rita drove to a nearby town to watch Spain's No. I bullfighter, Luis Miguel Dominguin. Dominguin dedicated his bull to Rita ("The most beautiful woman in North America"), and Rita rose to acknowledge the honor ("Good luck to the handsomest man in Spain"). After he had killed his target, Dominguin gallantly presented Rita with the ears and the tail of the bull...
...first wife, Elise, and marry again. Money was no problem. Eleven years of managing payrolls, contracts, the national lottery, sugar quotas and other traditional means of political enrichment had made him enormously wealthy. Havana insiders estimate his fortune at $50 million, and credit him with one of the handsomest gestures ever made by an active, vigorous man who wanted a younger and prettier mate: he reportedly gave Elise a twelve-story apartment house, other valuable property and $8,000,000 in cash...
French Morocco, rich in minerals and water power, is one of the handsomest and, in the north, one of the most fertile territories in all Islam. In the spring, parts of the country are as green as England. It is a land with three capitals: Rabat, the seat of government; Casablanca, the main seaport and business center; Fez, the religious and cultural capital. The population of 9,000,000 includes 4,500,000 Moorish Arabs, 4,000,000 Berbers, 350,000 French. The Berbers, bigger and blonder than the Arabs, are Moslems but they have their own language, and their...