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Many sweltered in grimy day coaches, slept on the dirty floors, jeered at the sleek streamliners which whizzed past as they waited for hours on sidings...
...wrote one critic during Maggie Teyte's barnstorming years with the Chicago Opera, the Boston and La Scala Opera Companies. Her favorite roles as Melisande in Pelleas and Melisande, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, set off her charms to best advantage. Photographs of Maggie Teyte in knickers and sleek satin gowns with gold slippers were treasured items in the dens of U.S. dudes. Women crowded counters for "Maggie Teyte Perfume." But when she failed to snare a Metropolitan contract, Maggie Teyte shrewdly decided that her clear-toned, brilliantly controlled voice was better suited to chamber singing than to opera...
...thought of sleek Argentines purring over the pampas at a prewar clip while U.S. motorists were rationed and Brazilians burned charcoal sparked a widespread resentment. The Washington Post called the deal "snubbing our friends and favoring our enemies...
Fritz Mandl, sleek, shifty, Croesus-rich ex-Austrian arms manufacturer who has had his political troubles (he was blacklisted in 1944 by the State Department and is now rumored imprisoned in Argentina) ran into domestic trouble. He was sued for $80,000 in back alimony by his first wife, ex-Viennese Actress Hella Strauss. (Another Mandl exwife: Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr-see MILESTONES...
Peaceable as a reformed shark, the 1,600-ton U-234 nosed meekly into New Hampshire's Piscataqua River and disgorged the cargo of the week. Aboard the sleek Nazi submarine, which may have been headed for Japan, were: 1) cold-eyed, natty Lieut. General Ulrich Kessler of the German air force; 2) a mysterious civilian in a wrinkled raincoat and baggy suit, clutching a bulging cardboard suitcase; 3) two minor Luftwaffe officers and five German naval officers and technicians; 4) some interesting metal dispatch boxes apparently full of papers and armament blueprints. Missing were the bodies...