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...third such outburst that Mosley's men had provoked in three weeks (total arrests: 155). Another free-swinging battle erupted in Trafalgar Square last month during a rally held by the National Socialist Movement, a minuscule offshoot of Mosley's group, whose members wear storm trooper uniforms, parrot Goebbels' anti-Semitic slogans, and hang pictures of Hitler on the walls of their seedy Bayswater headquarters...
Died. Polly (real name: Pearl) Adler, 62, longtime (1920-45) Manhattan madam whose garish parlors were a house away from home for those who found the scarlet parrot on her business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny...
...almost nude, seemed to be true to tradition. But why, asked the museum, did the whole painting revolve around the woman's right leg, with the foot resting on a globe? She herself points at the leg; Cupid puts his hand on it; both Time and the parrot seem transfixed by it. All this attention, plus the globe, could only be explained, said the museum, if the female figure were Truth. She is supreme over the earth; she casts aside her rich garments as false vanities. Cupid's hourglass symbolizes the mortality of earthly love; the sun sheds...
Frenchmen get their news straight enough from the country's press-which is not government-owned and not particularly cowed by France's punitive press-control laws. But they get nothing of the sort from RTF. which is a glib and obedient government parrot. So biased-and so boring-are RTF's newscasts that its reporter teams are frequently hissed when they are recognized on Paris streets...
...seeing is the work of Angela Lansbury. She plays Berry-berry's mother as a woman with the brain of a flea, the heart of a whale, the tongue of a toad, the devotion of a dog, the cunning of a serpent, the innocence of -a noisy old parrot...