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...colonels' uniforms just in case he decided to defect, even discussed a possible escape from Russia by submarine if things got hot. He recalled more relaxed moments pub-crawling and nightclubbing. Box of Chocolates. After London, there was Paris. Wynne gaily showed the Russian around Fontainebleau, Versailles, the Lido and the Moulin Rouge-and willingly picked up the tab. Penkovsky handed over 15 more rolls of film and had five sessions with Western intelligence agents. On occasions when Wynne came to Moscow on a business trip, Penkovsky usually passed his information to him concealed in a box of chocolates...
...water temperature was a frigid 54° one day recently when Mary Margaret Revell, a pretty blonde of 25, stepped into the surf at Sicily's Lido di Mortelle, pulled a pair of goggles over her eyes, and set out for the distant Italian coast. Two and a half hours later, she waded ashore, paused just long enough to gulp down honey, glucose tablets and tea, then started back toward Sicily. The going was tougher now; her right arm developed a cramp; she swallowed sea water and vomited. Only her legs kept her going. At last, after...
...music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...
...naughty night life are not French at all-just English girls who would be hard-pressed to manage a convincing ooh-la-la. The Bluebells are Europe's most famous dancing girls. All told, there are 120 of them; Bluebells were dancing last week not only at the Lido but at Las Vegas, on Italian TV and in Tokyo. Although they are known as an English company, they no longer dance in England. A troupe of Bluebells tried it two years ago and did not get the staging they felt that they were entitled to. Says Manager Peter Baker...
...losing her virtue. The girls from 16 (minimum age) to 18 must have a chaperone always with them, and the older girls (up to 29) are fired if caught consorting with the customers. No Bluebell ever appears in the nude (although eight decorative non-Bluebell nudes stand around the Lido stage while the Bluebells perform). Presumably acting on the theory that a good big girl is better than a good little girl, Miss Kelly long ago decided that no Bluebell could be less than 5 ft. 8 in. Some hit 6 ft. 4 in., and when got up in four...