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...just like old times down South for onetime Playgirl Patricia ("Honeychile") Wilder, now the wife of Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and proprietress of an Austrian resort hotel. On a recent safari to Italian Somaliland, it seems, Honeychile bought herself a slave girl. "I'm from Georgia, you know, in the Deep South, and we used to have slaves there," explained Honeychile. "The sweet little girl was only 16, and her father wanted to sell her to some old man. I just jumped into the affair and outbid the other buyer." But Honeychile still has one problem...
...Damned if You Don't. In Houston, after a bar proprietress told him to stop swearing, Durwood Delmont Jenkins qualified for a two-year probation term when he began a loud recitation of the 23rd Psalm instead, was told that that was not appropriate either, grabbed an 8-ft. plank and smashed the bar window...
...House. In Milwaukee, Internal Revenue officials, agreeing to accept $23,000 plus a percentage of her future income in settlement for $81,656 in back taxes from Mae Yager, 67, a bawdyhouse proprietress, explained that the arrangement might prove more profitable than a forced sale of Madam Yager's assets...
...House. In Milwaukee, Internal Revenue officials, agreeing to accept $23,000 plus a percentage of her future income in settlement for $81,656 in back taxes from Mae Yager, 67, a bawdyhouse proprietress, explained that the arrangement might prove more profitable than a forced sale of Madam Yager's assets...
...marital fling. The nameless heroine is a petite Japanese Mademoiselle Butterfly, who he hopes will prove a piece-de-non- resistance. But a series of Japanese throw themselves in his way, not to save her virtue, but his dignity, and above all Japan's face. There is a hotel proprietress who uncomprehendingly scalds him in the bath ("Honorable tepid bath . . . could not have been more than 113°''). There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words: seventy-eight yen fifty . . . It was the price of Kodak No. 3A. anastigmatic lens...