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...Orsay, brushing and shaping her hair in a huge silvery, mother-of-pearl bathroom. For a formal reception at the Elysee Palace, Alexandre, declaring himself inspired by pictures of Gothic Madonnas, thickened Jackie's bangs and "dressed her cheeks" with two sweeping waves. Anticipating complaints that the style hid too much of Jackie's face, Alexandre said: "A beautiful face needs foliage around it." For a ball next night at Versailles, Alexandre moved on from the Madonnas to the Duchess of Fontagnes, one of Louis XIV's loveliest mistresses, and designed a spectacular that was topped...
...invasion, questioned him, and then inexplicably released him. At 10:30 that night he heard car doors slam in the street outside his apartment house, looked out and saw his janitor leading a squad of G-2 men into the building. Mallin ran up a flight of stairs and hid in a hallway storage bin. The G-2 men waited in the apartment; Mallin waited in the bin. At 5 a.m. Mallin crept down the stairs, shoes in hand, and made it past his apartment to the street. He rode a city bus downtown, found a Jamaican cabby he knew...
Nearly all the civilian administrators prudently disappeared or refused to cooperate. Challe dispatched a squad to capture Admiral Jean-Marie Querville, commander of the Mediterranean fleet. Querville hid behind a tree in his garden and escaped to the Algiers harbor. Soon he got a call from Challe inviting him to join. "If we don't do it this way, we'll have a Communist-backed government here in six months," said Challe. "If we do it this way," answered Querville, "the Communists will be here sooner than that." Querville left by destroyer for the big naval base...
...when the end came, Eichmann meekly surrendered to U.S. troops, wearing the uniform of a Luftwaffe corporal and calling himself Adolf Earth. When questioning began to get intensive, he escaped from the P.W. camp and hid out as a lumberjack in northern Germany. The mysterious attraction Eichmann held for some women smoothed the way: unanimously, they found him polite, considerate, and filled with a romantic melancholy. After three years' concealment, he made contact with the still existent Nazi underground and was smuggled through Switzerland to Italy. There, posing as an anti-Communist refugee, he got a Red Cross...
...Palmer Shaken, Player fluffed a simple, 3-ft. puti on the 15th, dropped a stroke behind Staggering through a sand trap on the 18th; Player finished with a total of 280, eight strokes under par for the 72-hole tournament. Near tears and certain that he had lost, he hid out in Tournament Chairman Clifford Roberts' apartment to watch Palmer's finish on television...