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Salomon, 27, reportedly repaid the prince's hospitality by recounting fond recollections of her sojourn like this nugget: "Everyone was sitting around the swimming pool looking glum, when Andrew suddenly grabbed Koo and ripped off her bathing suit. Then he went to another girl and pulled at hers." Among her other dispatches from the isle of Mustique: the prince running around in the buff and attempting to jam a live lobster down the bathing suit of a young lady. Prince Charles, 33, meanwhile, is plagued by rumors about a "royal tiff" with his wife Diana, 21. Newspapers, after apparently...
...companion of Bech's choice, who will pull each sheet from under his busy pen. Bech brings along Norma, the reliable mistress whom he will never marry; the two of them have settled into "a limbo of heterosexual palship haunted by silently howling abandoned hopes." As the tense sojourn drags toward its close, Bech finds his signature harder and harder to complete. Finally he lifts his pen. "All was poised, and the expectant blankness of the paper seemed an utter bliss to the author, as he gazed deep into the negative perfection to which his career had been brought...
Judging from last season's uninspiring spring sojourn to Johns Hopkins. Delaware, and Cornell, which propelled the squad to an early 0-3 record, staying near home may not be such a bad idea. And considering the squad's unsuccessful journey to Baltimore, Md. earlier this season, the idea may be a very good...
...Asian affairs bureau in Stockholm. For the next five years, Oberg helped mediate between the United States and Hanoi. In 1970, he opened the Swedish mission to the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam. He stayed in Vietnam until 1974, a witness to the gradual American withdrawal. After a brief sojourn to Stockholm, Oberg was named ambassador to Thailand. Laos and Singapore--Sweden maintained one post for these three nations--where he served until last year...
...Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) casts a long shadow over modern art. His career took him to most of its centers: Munich before World War I, Russia, and next a long sojourn at the Bauhaus in Germany during the 1920s, then a last expatriation to Paris after the rise of Hitler. If ever a painter carried his culture in one portable labyrinth on his back, as if he were a rambling snail, it was Kandinsky. And while he did not invent abstract art on his own (as he and his admirers were given to claim), he certainly did more...