Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Dec. 26 item, dealing with the cause of Napoleon's death, it seems odd that the French magazine Arts, which now charges the English with inventing a verdict of cancer to suppress news of a tropical disease contracted on St. Helena, doesn't know that the same charge was made in 1937 by Raoul Brice, Lieut. General of the French Army, in a book called The Riddle of Napoleon. He says the malady was an abscess of the liver complicated by amebic dysentery contracted on the island-approximately the sense of your article. He also flatly accuses...
...windows of an American's seaside cottage to see what was to them an appalling sight: ladies in fig leaves and leopard-skin bras dancing with gentlemen in fur loincloths. Wanamaker Heir Gurnee Munn Jr. had invited the American colony to a caveman party. Many of the 100-odd guests he had invited to come in fancy undress had decided to stay home because of the bad weather. Those that came, despite their Neanderthal getup, behaved as circumspectly and with the same dogged gaiety as any like group in Sacramento or Scarsdale. But to the zealous guardsmen the party...
...Malaga seized the pictures and sent them to the civil governor, who in turn sent them on to Madrid. There, it was rumored, they were shown to Franco himself. As a result, Munn was fined $250 for arranging a meeting "of manifestly immoral nature." Each of his 40-odd guests was fined $75 for attending. Last week, after protesting in vain to the U.S. embassy, Cave Man Munn and a dozen of his playmates hired Spanish lawyers to file an appeal...
Opera is hard enough to produce in the opera house, where the conductor is only 20-odd feet from his cast. On TV it is twice as hard: the conductor is in another room. This week the NBC Opera Theatre televised its 38th opera production, Mozart's masterpiece, The Magic Flute, two hours of soaring music and symbolic drama, beautifully sung and bewitchingly visualized in color...
...Manhattan, Singer Julius La Rosa, 26, who found fame with TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey and fortune ($500,000-odd a year) when Godfrey fired him, toasted his engagement to raven-haired Rosemary ("Rory") Meyer. Experienced in dealing with troubadours as Crooner Perry Como's secretary, Rory, 25, first popped into the public eye a little over a year ago, when she won a national contest as Cinemactress Ava Gardner's closest lookalike...