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...ever. His face twitches as he talks. He walks stiffly because of a leg wound he received fighting in the underground. To get across his Gaullist message to the French people, Malraux works daily from 7 a.m. till dinner as De Gaulle's unofficial public relations counsel ("his left-hand man," say friends). In his bright, modernistic apartment at the edge of Paris' Bois de Boulogne, he is entrenched behind a plain wooden table in which he keeps a loaded revolver ("I am high on the list of those with whom the Communists would gladly dispense"); his telephone...
...least known operas is Tsar Saltan. A skip-along scherzo in its second act has become one of the inevitable pieces in any violinist's repertory: Flight of the Bumblebee. Last week Rimsky-Korsakov's little earsore was a strong jukebox nickel-puller, helped by a steady left-hand beat, and a new name: Bumble Boogie...
...Town Hall debutante, was after cash as well as kudos. She wanted to begin to pay off some $40,000 in medical bills. She had had 17 operations since the night in 1943 when the Yankee Clipper, filled with U.S.O. entertainers, crashed near Lisbon, leaving her with two paralyzed left-hand fingers...
Cork Trees and Seduction. Count Grandsailles was France's most brilliant statesman. "With the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner the Count would mildly bring out the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, and with the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, he would moderately develop the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner." His chief passion was planting cork trees. But for five years the Count had practised "mutual seduction" with beautiful Solange de Cleda. A horse-lover, he "was always tempted to tap Solange on the buttocks and give her a piece of sugar...
This served to point a finger at Ernie King's old-line left-hand man, Vice Admiral John S. McCain, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air), who now has nearly 750,000 airmen serving under him. Said he: the Navy had to tram near the coast, but the Army's "abandoned" airfields were nearly all inland; the Army would let them to the Navy only temporarily. The Committee accepted his explanation, with reservations...