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...Absence of Grace. When The Fall begins, Jean-Baptiste has long since abandoned Paris and the law for a stool in a sleazy Amsterdam bar. There he hangs like a gin-soaked albatross around the neck of a long-suffering listener, perhaps meant to be the reader himself. To this shadowy confidant, Jean-Baptiste bares his soul-or, rather, picks the scabs off it. The trouble with doing good, he reveals, is the monumental vanity of it. The moment comes when a man realizes that "he can't love without self-love...
...thyroid disturbance." Transferred to Budapest's Conti Prison, he was held in solitary confinement for four years, the cells on each side of him empty to prevent wall-tapping communication. His cell was "small and crumbling. There was a straw mat to sleep on, a table, a stool, a small bucket for one's needs and another for water." While in solitary, "I received no mail, read no newspapers and no books except my breviary and my Bible . . . Each day I said my rosary six times. Much of the time I prayed for strength . . . Once I was beaten...
...Chevy Show, Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore teamed up to put the imprint of their own engaging personalities on a repertory of ditties reminiscent of the enchanted evening when Mary Martin and Ethel Merman just pulled up a stool in front of the camera and sang some old songs...
...have proved effective ambassadors. For many it is a year of personal triumph. Among these is Headmaster Henry Callard of Baltimore's Gilman School, who taught a year at King's School in Bruton, England. When he and his family left England, his pupils sent him a stool used at Queen Elizabeth's coronation in Westminster Abbey, solemnly recorded in their magazine: "Whenever in the future any of us feels irritation at the utterances of some American politicians, we shall remember the Callards, and our ruffled feelings will be soothed by the reflection that it is people...
...Paris in a huff after Monte Carlo's stuffy old Casino refused to admit her in toreador pants. Another Monte Carlo visitor who fared worse than Marlene was spaniel-faced Cinemadman Mischa (Something Always Happens) Auer. He 1) broke an arm in a fall off a low stool, 2) then suffered a deep cut on his rump in a tumble from bed as he reached for a bottle (mineral water), 3) on rising from his bed of pain, met a friend whose hearty get-well backslap dislocated Auer's shoulder...