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...humid summer night, and as usual a crowd is stationed outside the stage door of Manhattan's Palace Theater. There are restraining barriers and a policeman or two, but they do not prevent pandemonium when she comes out. Autograph hounds demand her signature, and as her limousine pulls away, men thrust their cards through the window. "Give me a call, Raquel," says one pudgy fan with a wink. She smiles and passes his name on to her husband, Andre Weinfeld. "This one," she says, "is an accountant...
Judging from Freidenberg's remarkable disclosure about Alexander, it now seems likely that Pasternak had his own brother in mind when he composed the most mysterious figure in his novel, Evgraf, the secret policeman who is Yuri Zhivago's halfbrother...
...asking for bail," Fagan persisted. "I'd rather go back to the cells." Detective Chief Superintendent Trevor Lloyd-Hughes agreed, warning that Fagan might skip trial, commit other crimes or hurt himself. "His present state of mind is such that his movements and actions are totally unpredictable," the policeman said. "He has serious personal problems and has suicidal tendencies. He has twice tried to slash his wrists, and the marks are still to be seen...
...Commissioner John Dellow, who carried out the investigation, reported that Pagan's movements had been more extensive than earlier accounts had indicated. Fagan got inside, Dellow said, by climbing a railing near the gates to the Ambassadors' entrance at 6:45 a.m. He was spotted by a policeman, but in the first breakdown of communications, the police control room let the warning slip...
Suicide suddenly occurred to him when he spotted the ashtray. He smashed it and, at 7:15 a.m., entered the royal bedroom carrying a shard. The policeman stationed outside the door had gone off duty at 6 a.m. The footman who relieved him, by custom, was walking the Queen's corgis. Her maid was working near by but with doors closed so as not to disturb the sleeping monarch...