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...native girls and native rights, once jailed him for three months), extreme poverty (failing to sell the pictures he sent back to Paris, he had to count on occasional presents from his Paris friends). But he used the mingled depths of the Pacific sky and sea and the Persian-rug colors of the land to turn his escape from civilization into a wonderful enrichment of Western culture...
...trip, thanks to fellow-passenger Lord Beaverbrook, had been dandy. "He's such a nice man," said the Viscountess, "and he took such good care of me. He . . . kept giving all kinds of orders like 'Get a rug for Her Ladyship' and things like that. It was almost like old times when one had servants traveling with...
...Drinking with the boys" topped the list of blights on marital bliss. "Other women" ran a weak fifth, behind such minor vices as failure to bring home a box of candy, or a tendency to domineer. "Ashes on the rug" was a surprising last...
...Chet Bowles has a white frame house, his own brook, a big swimming pool. There live his second wife, "Steb," a former social worker whom he married in 1934, two daughters, a son, two spaniels, four Persian cats. In the evenings he likes to sprawl on the living-room rug, surrounded by his family, with a cocktail and the afternoon papers. On mild weekends, he likes to have family picnics, with a bountiful supply of hot dogs and cold milk...
Whistling Wolf. Smiling reminiscently, Mrs. Malcolmson told how the chunky, bull-necked fighter pilot had acted when he saw her for the first time in Bombay, India. "He let out a wolflike whistle, started toward me, tripped over a rug and landed with his arms around my knees." Mrs. Malcomson was not charmed. But when she boarded the S.S. Brazil to be evacuated to New York in 1942, Pappy was aboard too, armed with soft words and a case of Scotch. When she got on a westbound train, Pappy turned up again. "I fell in love with...