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John Davis Lodge, handsome 42-year-old grandson of the late Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, brother of new Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; ex-Navy lieutenant commander and onetime cinemactor (The Little Colonel with Shirley Temple, The Scarlet Empress with Marlene Dietrich). In his campaign, Republican Lodge and his wife, onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti, invaded Bridgeport's Italian district making speeches in Italian, while his opponent, Ranger hero Colonel Henry Andrew Mucci, a second-generation Italian, spoke only English. Lodge will fill the seat occupied for two terms by retiring Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
...national flower of Bolivia is the kantuta, bell-shaped and scarlet. The Incas said the flower first blossomed from the blood dropped by a Virgin of the Sun God, beloved by a prince and slain by the trick of a jealous witch. Spring came cold and dark to lofty Bolivia, but nobody recalled more beautiful kantutas. It was, Bolivians said, as if all the blood shed this year were reappearing as flowers...
...purple robes and scarlet, the dignitaries paced, in academic route step, up to the door. At the big moment King George put the silver key in the lock and turned; the key snapped in his hands...
...home for working women, picked up what jobs she could, such as designing leatherwork and making artificial flowers in a sweatshop. In October 1874, she read a newspaper account of séances held by the Eddy brothers in Vermont. Spiritualist Blavatsky promptly descended on the Eddys in a scarlet shirt and a whirl of exotic spirit controls...
...Flynn appeared at practice yesterday, and will be available against the Indians on Saturday. Flynn was slightly injured against the Scarlet, but has recovered rapidly...