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After the war he played both sides of a Socialist split, formed his own group in Aubervilliers, married the simple, homely daughter of Socialist Leader Dr. Georges Claussat. He has since kept Madame Laval in the background. He began to prosper as a legal fixer, moved to a swank home in Paris, wangled an amnesty law for defeatists through the Chamber, and snuggled up to influential Joseph Caillaux...
...president. Cowling has increased its wealth tenfold (now nearly $8,000,000 in endowment and plant) and created an idyllic little college. In a region where State universities predominate, Carleton (cost: $850 a year) is considered a rich boys' & girls' college, but President Cowling tolerates no swank. His students are forbidden cars, have no fraternities or sororities, devote themselves to such simple amusements as blanket parties in the Arboretum (a campus park). Freshmen wear little green caps (boys) or green mittens (girls...
...afternoon in June 1939, slim young Julia Esther Briones walked into a swank Guayaquil barbershop, pumped five bullets into her rich, reclining, about-to-be-shaved lover, Ramón Hidalgo R. To jail went Julia with a nine-year sentence. In November 1940, Army Captain Félix Guerrero Zarate blasted three bullets into the beautiful young body of his just-divorced wife, María Magdalena Mejía. To jail went Félix with an eight-year sentence...
...Italy's food grew scarce, down went Italian morale. Servants whose sons were frozen to death in the Greek campaign still worked in swank resorts, saw profiteering contractors avoid Government taxes by giving weekend trinkets to pinchable blondes. Old families were being ruined by gambling debts. Married couples rowed over trifles. The black market's tentacles reached into the top of the Fascist hierarchy, despite fulminations against racketeers and "slackers" by Publisher Roberto Farinacci. Thousands of Romans, terrified by accounts of R.A.F. bombings in Naples, took their bambini into Vatican City, where they crowded together...
...East and West coasts, in Manhattan especially, the samba had broken out of the Latin American nightclub bounds, was being played & danced in many swank dance spots...