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...catlike in his manners, his wit and his sulks. Wrote Poet André Suares: "Just as the cat rubs itself against the hand, Debussy caresses his soul with the pleasure which he invokes." A natural bohemian, the composer spent nights roaming Montmartre with celebrities of the period ranging from Mata Hari to Marcel Proust...
...long skirt. Explained Sheppard: "Orders from Mrs. Kennedy are accompanied usually by a polite note asking the store or manufacturer please not to tell." But somebody "is always sure to make somebody promise not to breathe a word, and that somebody is hot on the telephone to Mata Hari in a few minutes...
Among U.S. foreign service men who are stationed in Iron Curtain countries, there is an old joke. It is about a foreign service officer who fell in love with a local Mata Hari, took her to bed and was there secretly photographed by Communist agents. When one of the agents later approached the American demanding U.S. secrets in return for the pictures, the foreign service officer looked over the prints and cried happily: "These are great. I'll take ten prints of this one and five of this...
...wild screams set off a chain reaction of panic among the jampacked whites. Whatever started it, there were shouts and screams from the road outside, then pistol shots. The mourners in the cemetery ran wildly over the graves. Men picked up sticks, clubs and stones, began cursing and crying, "Mata Todos!" (Kill them...
Quiet at Home. In the pokey with Siqueiros are 130 other veteran Reds and agitators. The list is a Who's Who of trouble: Demetrio Vallejo, railroad union strike leader, Communist Leader Dionisio Encinas, Red-lining Newspaperman Filomeno Mata. The Mexican constitution states that for such crimes as social dissolution the interval between indictment and trial can be no longer than twelve months. Yet Unionist Vallejo has been in jail for 20 months without trial, and some of the others have been out of action even longer...