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...repairs. Diana conceded that possibly her husband was in the right (". . . the defiled nest and all that sort of thing, you know") but, even so, ordered him to pack his things and move out. To the reporters she explained that her own black eye had resulted from a domestic tiff four days earlier ("I don't mind being punched. Noel Coward said that women should be struck regularly like a gong and he's right"). In conclusion, she observed thoughtfully,"Women are no damn good...
...Moslems praying towards Mecca five times a day had given Foucauld, a freethinker from the age of 14 "a glimpse of something greater and truer than anything I had hitherto seen in the worldly world." He said goodbye to Mimi and rejoined his outfit, but after another tiff with his C.O., he quit the army for keeps. He turned to exploring. First mastering Hebrew, he posed as a rabbi in order to go into the Rif (the hill country of Morocco), something no more than half a dozen white men had done by 1882. After eleven months and as many...
...from his eminence as a philosopher, poet, diplomat and educator, but from the fact that he was once regarded as outside of and above the struggle between Communists and Kuomintang. After four years (1938-42) as Chiang's ambassador in Washington, he left his post because of a tiff with the wartime Chungking regime. In 1947 he said: "Liberal is a terrible term these days, so you'd better just call me an independent." He wrote a letter to "Dear Mr. Mao" urging the Red leader to disband the Red army if and when the Communists joined...
...Million Missing. Along the way, Williams had a notable tiff with the Department of Agriculture. He heard from one of his sources that the department's books did not balance, that a matter of some $350 million could not be accounted for. The law requires every federal department to submit its books to Congress every year. Agriculture's hadn't been submitted for four years. "I called the Comptroller General," says Williams. "They said that the Department books were in such a mess they couldn't be audited...
...Haverford, Pa., just back with the Wimbledon singles championship, 17-year-old Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly walked off with her third straight Pennsylvania & Eastern States title after losing only eleven games in the entire tournament. Asked about the reported tiff with her coach, Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, she replied: "I am not mad . . . We had a few words in England over my supposedly sore shoulder that never really bothered me, but we kissed and made up. Teach made me what I am today. She changed my entire game, and she'll be my coach as long as I play tennis...