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Last April, Griffon and Barbaud announced their strange new use for atomic energy. But not until last week did they have the satisfaction of seeing the method used in a criminal investigation. A strand of Mme. Duflos' hair was irradiated in Zoé. Later, in the secrecy of the judge's chambers, Toxicologist Griffon reported the results of the test, named the date when unfortunate Mme. Duflos first swallowed a dose of arsenic...
Harry Camberly's best friend could not have awakened from his afternoon snooze at a more awkward moment. A scant 20 feet from his screening bamboo thicket, on a deserted white strand of Riviera beach, lay Harry's blonde wife Eve and a sinewy French mechanic, making love. Harry's friend squeezed his eyes shut, but his mind ticked on furiously. "How could Eve prostrate herself in that atrocious way! What lunatic filth presumed in that man's upstart mind to lay a finger on her!" Suddenly, he "felt like murder." Harry's friend might...
When I arrived in New Orleans I met another Englishman, and together we visited the French Quarter and a small artificial beach. Wherever there's a sunny beach there are women, and at this particular man-made strand boys and girls play about 'til all hours. The lake is only four or five feet deep for quite a way out, and this provided an opportunity for the most copious necking I have ever seen in the water. Or for that matter, outside of the water...
Josephine, 45, who got her start in the all-Negro musical Shuffle Along (1922), gave the Strand's customers her latest continental routine. When she came onstage in a skintight, rhinestone-encrusted, white satin gown designed for her by Parisian Couturier Christian Dior, her brown-skinned elegance made bobby-soxers gasp and their boy friends whistle. Anybody who thought a quarter-century in Paris might have made "Josephine" languidly European soon realized his mistake. For all her high-styled gowns, Josephine was still mugging, swaggering and strutting with the free & easy abandon of a pig-tailed...
When Josephine tells her Strand audiences "I love you," she obviously means it. But she is still surprised at her big success. Twice before, when she interrupted her expatriate career to try out her talents in U.S. musicals, the critics were unkind. After she made a big hit in Havana this winter, she let U.S. showmen persuade her to try again...