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Today, at 38, he is still lean, balding, a little on the gaunt side. He works long hours, is tired when he gets home to his suite at the Park Lane, and to his trim-figured, brunette second wife, Lorelle, 33. Their living room has an impressive assortment of drawings and photographs of Lorelle, accumulated in their twelve years of married life...
...trim cruisers and destroyers clear their throats and spit...
...this hallooing was touched off by a trim, glib Manhattanite, Alfred D. McKelvy, a former longshoreman, clerk, gold prospector (he panned $87 worth of gold in six months) and adman. McKelvy got his idea in 1939 while sharing the apartment of a lady friend (absent) with another man. The roommate rummaged through cosmetics he found, just for fun gave himself the works-including a bubble bath and a cologne rubdown. He enjoyed it so much that McKelvy thought: "Why wouldn't other...
...Nationalists. Events have already brought trim, smooth-talking Soekarno a luxurious house in Batavia's European section. There he gladly poses for homey pictures with his beautiful Javanese second wife and ten-month-old son. He brushes aside queries about his anti-Allied broadcasts and his wartime trip to Japan by claiming that he merely cooperated to get concessions for his people. If the interviewer keeps on questioning him about collaboration, there is usually an intermission while handsome Indonesian girls serve cakes and hot ginger water...
London. Overnight he turns its trim interior into a welter of littered papers, damp towels, cast-off clothes, bottles, of hair tonic, a copy of Mein Kampf - chaos as complete as if the Balkans had been dumped in the heart of respectable Kensington. Daily, through this mush, Director Bergmann stamps the floor like a bathrobed Hercules faced with an absurd but unavoidable Labor. He roars genially at nervous Colleague Isherwood: "I am sure we shall be very happy together...