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...Only at the luncheon given us at the President's home at Hyde Park was liquor not served. I expect it could have been had there if asked for. In this gathering in the main were high-class citizens, but none could eliminate or keep out all the leeches when swarms from outside were trying to climb in. 'Tis so at all high-life functions...
Most noteworthy Italian exponent of the Fascist dictum that woman's place is in the home is none other than Donna Rachele Mussolini. For more than two decades this 49-year-old onetime waitress has been a strict homebody, has been seldom seen and never heard in public, has mean while presented her lord, Benito Mussolini, with no less than four strapping bambinos...
...little squirt anxious to be a tough guy," Paul Smith skipped through high school in Pescadero, Calif., at 14 set out to rub against the world. He jumped a harvest train, spent some time in the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, rode freight trains east to Ontario for gold, found none, jumped another freight back, worked in British Columbia logging camps (where friendly lumberjacks organized a bodyguard to protect him from those who resented his slickness), prospected in the Mojave Desert (where all he got was sunstroke), shoveled coal in Utah and Pennsylvania, bummed. Once, arriving in Eugene, Ore. with...
...Dumascene version of one of the wildest stabs ever made at history by that extravagant Romancer Alexander Dumas. Its hypothesis: that when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...
...United was no longer a united family. Its chief counsel (also a director) was none other than former SEC General Counsel Johnny Burns. He and belly-laughing Floyd Carlisle wanted to play ball with SEC immediately. Chief on the opposite side of the table in United's board room was Morgan Partner George Whitney...