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...months fat-cheeked Carol of Rumania has found Mexico City's suburb Coyoacan an agreeable place for his exile, complete with his red-haired mistress Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, a luxurious eight-room maisonette, two high-powered automobiles, valet, maid, two Cuban houseboys, two French poodles, two Pekingese, and former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu, who is something of a lap dog himself. There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico...
...soon as he reached his room . . . fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron to send home...
...Corp. plant in East Hartford. She got a permanent. Son of a famous stamp collector, he disclosed he had no collection of his own, explained: "I couldn't see the sense of having two collections in one family." En route to a weekend in New Jersey they discovered valet, maid and all their baggage were missing. The servants turned up two hours late, explained they had got lost...
...sian arms conference, which finally convened in Moscow this week, must have been conscious of this British risk. The U.S. delegates must have felt a little bit in the cold. They could look at Britain's Chief Delegate Lord Beaverbrook, perfectly comfortable in Moscow with his devoted valet nicknamed Secret Weapon, and figure that the Beaver would not make much sacrifice. They could figure that Russia was not aiding the U.S. in the same direct military way as it was aiding Britain. They could recall Munich, chide British tardiness in arming in the first "phony" months...
...ball around the Hays office right end with a song about how she got her start, which permits her to repeat her strip tease that first lit the domes of Broadway's Bald-Head Row in 1938. Connie Boswell and Rochester (Eddie Anderson, Jack Benny's valet) run first-rate interference for her with a punchy song&-dance number called Sand in My Shoes...