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...bonfire piles of stools and pallets. Others ripped off cell doors to feed the flames. As acrid fumes rose from a score of separate fires, eight squadrons of gendarmes, along with truckloads of municipal police and four companies of firemen, rushed to the scene. Inside the prison, Warden Hyacinthe Mariani, accompanied by three high-ranking Paris police officials, begged and pleaded with the prisoners for a restoration of order. So, surprisingly, did one of the prisoners, let out of his cell by his mates. The prisoner: Mohammed ben Bella, the Algerian nationalist leader whom the French kidnaped in Algiers...
Cinemactor Marlon Brando, who used to prowl around Hollywood in a T shirt and sneakers, was assuming a strangely respectable air. Two months ago, in France, he announced that he was "officially engaged" to Josane Mariani-Berenger, 19, stepdaughter of a French fisherman. Many Brando fans prophesied that their erratic hero was having one of his passing romances. But last week the young actor, to all appearances a resolutely changed man, returned from France on the liner United States. Asked by waiting newsmen about his intentions, he snapped: "It is not a publicity stunt, and I do intend to marry...
While Cinemactor Marlon (Désirée) Brando was holed up in Italy trying to escape the "persecution" of newsmen, his fiancée, onetime Artists' Model Josane Mariani-Berenger, 20, just before taking off from Paris for New York, submitted to some persecution and sounded a trifle hazy about the direction their idyl will now take. "I know I am going to start a new life with the help of Marlon, and it will be different from what I have done so far," burbled she. "I hope to be in my first movie along with Marlon...
Reporters charged into the little village of Bandol, France, to corner elusive Cinemactor Marlon Brando, 30, who finally admitted that he is engaged to marry pretty Josane Mariani-Berenger, 20, stepdaughter of a local Mediterranean fisherman. But that was about all the information the reporters got that they might depend on-for Brando, in his own unpredictable way, frequently likes to play the merry wild goose. Like lovers in a gay French film, the couple first talked about the romance that neither Louella Parsons nor Hedda Hopper in their wildest moments had predicted. Josane, who used to pose...
...this time, Vissering had studied his who's who of the Livorno waterfront. The man he picked to hire the stevedores was Dino Mariani, a stocky character who had once boxed on the Italian Olympic team and had run Genoa's waterfront until the Communists took it over and put him out of action (after a brutal thrashing by a Red goon squad...