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DIED. Bruce Austin Fraser, 93, deceptively mild-mannered admiral who served from 1948 to 1951 as Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, after having distinguished himself in World War II through exploits like commanding the force that sank the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943; in London...
...pirozhkovaya,"--a fast-food establishment where meat pastries are sold, one Saturday morning. The waitress, a tiny old woman in her sixties, asked us where we were from. "U.S.A.," said one of us. She didn't understand. "U.S.A.," we repeated. Still no connection. "America," we added. "Oh, Good Lord!" The woman exploded into a torrent of questions, assurances, promises, and encouragements. "We're just ordinary people. We're all just people. We want peace. Everyone wants peace. You want peace, too, don't you? Sure you do. We're good Soviet people, just like...
...were right the first time. For example, Roger Moore plays a chauffeur, who masquerades as his English lord in order to pick up stewardesses and one evening he has a most distressing problem: two women and only enough energy to satisfy one. So he struggles to keep them apart, faking phone calls, eating two dinners, and generally running around like a chicken minus its head. 007 would not have been proud. The next morning, however, we find our big surprise: without an explanation, Moore has landed both women in the same bed. The three wake up; smiling...
...began transferring large sums of money. Then someone working for Wells Fargo, purportedly Lewis, began to type bogus instructions into a computer terminal, perhaps transferring money from other deposits into the MAPS accounts. When Smith later started making large withdrawals, he attracted no notice. After all, he was a lord of the boxing rings and regularly paid fighters six-figure purses. Three weeks ago, however, the ruse unraveled. During some routine accounting work, a bank employee spotted serious irregularities in the records and sounded the alarm. Before the investigation picked up steam, both Smith and Lewis were gone. Smith...
...shows with her brother when she was nine and he seven. Their dazzling footwork and comic flair made them the hit of London and Broadway musical theater in shows that included the Gershwins' Lady, Be Good (1924) and Funny Face (1927). In 1932, amid much publicity, Adele married Lord Charles Cavendish, trading her thriving career for life as a British society woman. Three years after his death in 1944, she married American Stockbroker Kingman Douglass, who died in 1971. Fred once called her "a great artist and inimitable, and the grandest sister anyone could have...