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...assailants accouted V. Alexander Mead Jr, '65 and Richard T. Marin '65 and asked them for a match, six others than appeared and joined the first in attacking the students. Mead and Maria managed to escape just as Richard A. Corbett a second-year student in the Business School, approached the scene...
Actress Prentiss is an offbeat comedienne who sometimes spoils her flibbertigibbet appeal by straining for laughs that just aren't there. Maria Perschy, a German import who resembles Romy Schneider, plays Paula's roommate, which gives her a chance to carry messages back and forth and practice her English. The movie's chief support lies in a wagonload of outdoor gear supposedly borrowed from Abercrombie & Fitch. Of note to sportsmen is a pair of inflatable waders-step into a drop-off and the pants fill with air, quickly ballooning so big that they flip the occupant over...
...Maria Montessori stated that there was no such thing as a nonmathematical mind. It was only the result of poor teaching. It would appear that she was far ahead of her time...
Some scholars hear in fados "the sweet crying" of African slave songs or Gregorian chants. By the 18th century, Portuguese sailors were singing the sad songs to prostitutes, who sang them to aristocrats and other opinion makers. The first great fadista was Maria Severa, a gypsy prostitute who sang in a low-life casa do fado in the 1830s. She devoted her 26 dissolute years to bed and bullfights, wine and fado, and her legend is so much with the Portuguese that fadistas still wear black shawls in mourning...
...assumed, on the evidence of Josephine's two children by her first marriage, that he was responsible for the fact that his own marriage had been childless. In 1806, however, he became the father of an illegitimate son, and in 1809 his mistress of the moment, Polish Countess Maria Walewska, revealed that she was pregnant. Several months later, Bonaparte announced his decision to divorce Josephine for the good of the state. Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria gave him the legitimate son he wanted; Josephine retired on a handsome pension to Malmaison. When she died...