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...Harvard man, and were soon living in luxury at the Consulate. They were taken on guided tours of the city, and after a pleasant stay, they got a free flight back to Tri-zone in an empty air-lift transport. Another Harvard undergraduate with a flair for the lurid spent a weekend with the Salvador Dalis in Spain...
...carryings-on centering around Mrs. Kirby's boardinghouse on West Chestnut Street, where 18-year-old Elliot Paul lived for seven months in 1909, are as lurid and complex as the plot of a Faulkner novel, and though they are reported as unembellished fact, considerably less convincing. Scattered among accounts of excursions to local bars and bordellos, political picnics, Shriners conventions and early jazz sessions, are the tragedies of boardinghouse friends such as Donna Guillermina, a wandering Spanish aristocrat who died of eating too much burgoo at a political rally. Minor Paul characters are shot by suspicion-crazed alcoholic...
...herald the September addition of Hearst's lurid American Weekly to its Sunday edition (circ. 255,002), the Cincinnati Enquirer assigned a task force of staffers to whip up equally lurid blurbs. When her turn came, Columnist Mildred Miller offered readers an enticing sample of the Weekly's wares-stories about female chastity ("Voltaire has declared [it] man's greatest invention"), birth control ("Motherhood in many cases is a wrong against society"), and religion ("After 2,000 years of religious teachings our jails are crowded beyond capacity...
...landscapes of Gauguin, and by such far-off painters as Winslow Homer. Among the more outstanding exhibitors were amateur Archeologist-Teacher Walter Battiss, whose paintings of grazing animals and intrepid hunters were deliberately patterned on prehistoric Bushman drawings, and ex-Medical Corpsman Alexis Preller, who combined something of the lurid colors and slick forms of the Mexican muralists with the subject-matter of his own South Africa...
...stay in the U.S. is a stormy one, highlighted by: 1) a tug of war with a string of overaged strongmen (including Primo Camera, Phil ("Swedish Angel") Olafsson, and Man Mountain Dean); 2) an ear-splitting rampage in which Joe reduces the nightclub to kindling; and 3) the lurid rescue of a tot in a nightie from a burning orphanage...