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...life are not really free. Bamu, for example. She was a real Nigerian beauty, "with a skin as pale and glistening as milk chocolate, high, firm breasts, round, strong arms." Johnson, "black as a stove," all floppy arms and legs, and with a body "as narrow as a skinned rabbit's," tried to soften up Bamu with sweet talk: "What pretty breasts-God bless you with them." But Bamu could not be honeyed, she had to be bought. After a full day of hysterical bargaining, Johnson got her on the installment plan. By the time Bamu's family...
Something Soft in the Cellar. Novelist Bory, an inveterate courtroom spectator, discovered Sylvie soon after the war,when she was haled into court for stealing from her sister-in-law's Paris apartment seven dresses, six blouses, a kilo of sugar, a rabbit-fur vest, 10.000 francs and the stuffed head of a Pyrenean lizard. The judges sentenced her to three months in prison. Novelist Bory then & there determined to make Sylvie the heroine of his next book. The novel Fragile, or the Basket of Eggs* became a bestseller...
...chief casualty of the new labels is that old standby, the rabbit, which for years has traveled under a host of now illegal pseudonyms. Among them: Arctic seal, Baltic leopard, Belgium beaver, bluerette, castorette, chinchillette, erminette, French sable, Galland squirrel, marmotine, minkony, moline, nutriette and twin beaver. Maximum penalty for mislabeling: $5,000 fine and a year in jail...
Westinghouse Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Maria Riva in The Rabbit...
...Producer Bunin plays hob with the facts to picture the children's tale as a virtual allegory of the author's difficulties. To point up a tenuous parallel, he not only rigs the prologue but also changes such characters as the King of Hearts and the White Rabbit, who becomes a comic villain...