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Working girls at Prestwick, Scotland, thronged around his plane as if he were a combination of Tyrone Power and Laurence Olivier. Queen Mary, a woman with no nonsense about her, was openly captivated. Cried a London barmaid: "Nobody can say anything but the best about Ike." Taxi drivers, fishmongers, newspapermen echoed her words. In Luxembourg, street crowds chanted "Ike! Ike! Ike!" in the most undignified and friendly manner possible. U.S. occupation troops in Austria. Italy and Germany seemed to forget that they were fed up with garrison duty...
...sold 800,000 tickets - at a shilling a head - to 1,698 concerts, 147 of which she played herself. King George made Myra Hess a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for it. She was even prouder of the fact that "taxi drivers learned to love Mozart...
Sunk to the Eyebrows. Indian mystic Krishna "had been touted ... as an 'untouchable,' so much so that when I walked down Fifth [Avenue] with him he had to beg me to get him into a taxi since the females pestered him so." Flagg's own pestering gets considerably more space in his book. The story of his love life starts in low gear ("How was I to know that beautiful Nellie, voluptuous and sweet to look upon, was physically frigid?"), but soon shifts into high...
...next evening, at dusk, Correspondent Newton was coming home in a taxi. As it turned into Bartholomeu Mitre Street, the dark mass of the sandpile loomed up in the mist, and Newton shouted a warning to the driver. As the chauffeur turned to ask what was wrong, the taxi plowed into the sandpile...
...life with ex-Ziegfeld Follies beauty Gladys Glad was fodder for the most sentimental Hellinger copy. Married in 1929, they were divorced three years later. In his New York Mirror column Hellinger unabashedly sampled public reaction to the divorce. After imaginary interviews with a Wall Street clerk, a taxi driver, a socialite, etc., his final paragraph was the "Reaction of the Columnist, deep down in his heart: 'It's going to be awfully tough without you, baby. Awfully, awfully tough...