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First Shoes. During the 18th century diamond rush in the inland plateau state of Minas Gerais, Diamantina was a rich, bustling city of 40,000 inhabitants. A local diamond magnate even had an artificial lake and several miniature ships built, so that his mulata mistress could ease her nostalgia for the sea without making the three-week muleback trip to Rio. By the time Juscelino Kubitschek was born, Sept. 12, 1901, the synthetic sea had long since vanished, along with the diamonds, and hillside Diamantina had shrunk into an uneventful, cobble-streeted town with a population of less than...
...princely wealth, a vast palace near the Bois de Boulogne, a handsome wife and a son. He also had mistresses: the first, an opera singer, had refused to marry him ("As long as I'm only his mistress, I'm still free. His authority is incomplete"). He despised Automaker Andre Citroen, but enjoyed competing with him, was even a little regretful when Citroen went broke in 1934 trying to build a plant as modern as Renault's. "It was a dirty trick, showing him my place," Louis grinned...
...preparatory school to college fagging, a fetch-and-carry round of misery in which the New Boy was always jumping at the whim or whip of the "Bloods," an athletic elite corps. At Chartres, as he calls his school, Lewis, a lifelong bachelor, lost his virginity to a dancing mistress, and the remnants of his Christianity to his house mother. The house mother was running "the mazes of Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Spiritualism; the whole Anglo-American Occultist tradition . . . From the tyrannous noon of revelation I passed into the cool evening of Higher Thought, where there was nothing to be obeyed...
...their danger in defending the freedom of the press--by testing the public censors with sensational (i.e., candid) stories and pornographic parodies. The first allegedly indecent story appeared in 1884, but 1894 was the year of the first major crisis, when "Kid," a story about a Harvardman and his mistress appeared...
After two years of army duty, Alexis comes home to London and finds Rose ensconced as his uncle's mistress. Alexis coaxes her into a bedroom reunion, but at this point and over the next decade, the plot begins subdividing like an amoeba: 1) Rose takes up with a 20-year-old named Vincent; 2) Sir George dies; 3) Alexis and another of Uncle George's girl friends, an Italian contessa, get high at his funeral and land flat in some French hay; 4) Rose's and Uncle George's daughter Jenny, by now a remarkably...