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...Some others: Alexander Barmine (former Soviet chargé d'affaires in Athens, now a U.S. citizen); Victor Kravchenko (former member of the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington); Fedor F. Raskolnikov (former Soviet minister to Bulgaria, died in suspicious circumstances on the French Riviera); Walter G. Krivitsky (former chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Western Europe, died in suspicious circumstances in Washington); Ignace Reiss (former assistant chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Central Europe, murdered in Switzerland...
...Gare de Lyon flashbulbs flared. Newshawks elbowed each other to catch a glimpse of the glamorous prisoner. The door of a third-class compartment in the Riviera express swung open and out stepped three gendarmes. Between two of them, walking daintily in her high, furred boots, her shoulders draped with mink, and her charming features concealed behind a heavy black veil, stepped Marga, the Countess d'Andurain, 51, globe-trotter and alleged secret agent. She had come back to Paris, this time charged with murder...
Somerset Maugham - accompanied by his secretary, cook, housekeeper, butler and chauffeur-returned after long absence to his villa at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, found the second story pretty much a war ruin. He set himself a double deadline for April, hoped by then to have the place repaired and a book finished. A caller found him huddled by the fireplace, repairing a cold with hot grog. The book, said Maugham, would be "the last book of my life ... a romance . . ." and he meant not to dally. "I feel that when a man reaches my age [73 next month...
Voices of Despair. French Communist newspapers tried to glamorize the voyage. On board, they said, were retired Russian Generals Postovski and Makhrov and four Princes Obolensky. Actually, the Generals were basking in the Riviera sun, the Princes apparently, in no hurry to leave Paris...
...Hollywood's bullet-headed villain No. 1, was having great success in Paris, and not liking it at all. His ten-year-old La Grande Illusion, reissued, was the best-attended movie in town-and the most debated, because it showed Germans in a favorable light. From the Riviera, Von Stroheim cried out clearly, "Most inopportune," then rapidly became less & less clear. "I was a German cavalry officer," said he. "I loved horses, women, champagne and sport. French officers and officers of all other countries loved the same things. It is the bosses who wage war against workers...