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...Premier-husband's moderate salary into a fortune in millions, hundreds of fertile acres and a gleaming yacht. Senile Safsaf, as her husband was called, a onetime fellah who rose to boss Egypt's Wafd Party, blossomed out in Sulka ties, hired a valet, vacationed on the Riviera...
Roosevelt's wartime interventionism made him more popular than ever in the U.S., and there was already some cautious speculation about his getting the Republican nomination in 1920. The chance never came. On a January night in 1919 he went early to bed, told his valet, "Put out the light." They were his last words; by morning the 60-year-old ex-President was dead of coronary thrombosis...
There is a press around the door as the Pope moves to leave; people rush forward to talk to him again. But his valet has already placed a small white fur cape around his shoulders, and the chamberlains wait impatiently. A last smile, and he is gone...
...methods was carried off before a ruined pagoda in Pegu (pop. 21,000), an ancient Burmese town 45 miles north of Rangoon. A crowd of a thousand Burmans awaited him in Pegu. Among them were a hundred Communist demonstrators carrying placards, one quaintly inscribed in English. "Go Back Warmonger, Valet of Wall Street." A sound truck blared anti-American propaganda. Nixon on arrival walked up to the nearest card carrier and said, "I notice these cards are addressed to Mr. Nixon. I am Nixon, and I'm glad to know you. What's your name?" The goggle-eyed...
...information supplied by Wood that Dulles found the first evidence that someone in the British embassy in Turkey was selling vital Allied secrets to the Nazis. Following up Dulles' lead, the British eventually discovered that the culprit was Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen's valet "Cicero," who, thanks to the movie Five Fingers, has become World War II's best-publicized...