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...ladies liked Lieut. Gualtiero Gualtierotti, a handsome cavalryman with a toothbrush mustache and a roving eye. Behind his jingling spurs he left a trail of broken hearts. One day in 1936 a pair of black riding boots was delivered to his apartment in Rome. Said an accompanying note, written in a feminine hand: "To Rome's best pair of legs, from an admirer...
...Because some of his Communist cronies had been barred from attending a blood-Red "peace" rally in Britain (TIME, Nov. 20), Communist Picasso refused to send anything. Lacking prickly old Pablo, the show struck Critic John Russell of the London Sunday Times as rather like "a toothbrush without its bristles...
...fine May evening in 1912, two testy young U.S. critics strolled along the Champs Elysees in Paris. "Isn't it magnificent?" asked George Jean Nathan. Replied H. L. Mencken: "You can have it. I want a good American drugstore, where I can get a first-class toothbrush...
...when she was admitted to the Topeka State Hospital in 1932. Suffering from delusions that her husband was trying to kill her (by putting formaldehyde on her toothbrush), she had tried to kill him. A year later the hospital recorded her as "mentally better . . . but . . . still delusional." Four years later, the hospital recorded that she had "shown a tendency to injure others and should be observed for a much longer period . . . before a parole is considered." In 1941, an examining board adjudged her "incurably insane...
...tutelage of former Annam Governor Eugene Charles. "I bring you a schoolboy," said Khai Dinh. "Make of him what you will." Three years later, Khai Dinh died. He was buried in a splendid mausoleum, at Hué; at the foot of his tomb lay his prized French decorations, toothbrush, Thermos bottles and "Big Ben" alarm clock. Bao Dai, who had come 'home for the funeral, was crowned the 13th sovereign of the Nguyen (pronounced New Inn) dynasty. He turned the throne over to a regent, and hurried back to Paris...