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...alias Joseph Mercier, alias Regis, alias Max, who held the unexciting prewar job of prefect of Chartres, had simply decided to stand up to the boches. Once, after being tortured by the Germans, his courage failed him and he tried to slit his throat (afterward, he always wore a scarf and became known as The Man with the Muffler). Eventually, De Gaulle charged him with coordinating all of France's hopelessly scattered resistance knots. The result was the National Council of Resistance which unified all underground activities. It was at one of the council's meetings (at Caluire...
...costume: spotted, close-fitting tights, and naked from the waist up. Debussy's gentle, reedy music was lost in a balcony din of hisses, boos and catcalls. Someone yelled "collaborator" in French; a more irreverent Britisher in the gallery called out "hot dog!" As Lifar picked up a scarf to caress it (it was left behind by a wood nymph) a well-timed whistle split the air. When the curtain came down, there was a cacophonous mixture of cheers and jeers...
Passion for Reds. Last week, campaigning for renomination and a third term in the Senate, he was at it again. At 68 he was an ugly little figure; sometimes, as he whirled across the countryside in his sleek, grey Cadillac, he wrapped a red scarf around his big, balding head to keep hoarseness away. Each morning he put on a fresh white shirt and a red tie; each night he slept in red pajamas. He made three speeches (averaging two hours each) and smoked nine cigars...
...Dickens could not shake off the specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...
...spite of his flapping blue uniform and red scarf with white polka dots, he had shed all his clownishness. He made no attempt to save his neck, again & again gluttonously claimed responsibility: "I am responsible for German rearmament. . . . I always wanted bombers for bombing the U.S. . . . I personally gave the orders to bomb Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry." With furious gusto, he shifted blame from fellow defendants to himself. He spoke with unvarying respect of Adolf Hitler, cried: "I do not propose in any way to hide behind the Führer...