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...soon as the Kabylia recruits arrived in Algiers, the French promptly seized them. By last Sept. 24, all that was left of Saadi's once formidable terrorist empire was Saadi himself. That day (TIME, Oct. 7) the French ringed his casbah hideout and captured him and his mistress...
Lyndon Johnson's ancestry reaches six generations back into Texas history. One great-grandfather was the second president of Baylor University. Another was a preacher who persuaded Sam Houston to get rid of his Indian mistress and stop drinking. Another was a member of the Texas legislature. Perhaps most important to Lyndon's future, his father was a member of the state legislature-and served there with Sam Rayburn...
...connives so enthusiastically at his own disinheritance that he wins her heart as he gives her a child. The child is born and everybody is happy, but when the father disinherits the elder son in favor of the younger, the lover begins to doubt the motives of his mistress. Desperate, she proves her love by smothering the baby. Horrified, he tells the sheriff. But in the end he understands that he shares her guilt, and he goes to share her punishment...
...slow embrace she remains beautiful and virginal, tended in the peaceful New England countryside by a dedicated aunt and a Negro cook. This sunnily funereal household is subsidized out of the thin pocketbook of Annette's husband James, who shares one room in New York with his mistress and dreams of the day when death will free him to marry her. When the mistress becomes pregnant, James resolves to divorce Annette, but face to face with the supine, trusting invalid, he holds his tongue. The memorable story evokes a morbid doll's house in which death is pink...
...flashbacks, each man defines the life that helped make him what he is-Billings' background affluent, Eastern, Harvard; Haislip's poor, Midwestern, school of hard knocks. But it is Haislip's mistress who finally tells Billings even more than he wants to know: "You're a saver. Cautious and careful . . . Not Hank. He wants things different. He's a breaker, and you know why? He wants to break things and set them up again so he can be a careful little saver instead of you." Whether the breakers or the savers will carry...