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...California court and met an old acquaintance, Restaurateuse Sally Stanford (real name: Mabel Janice Busby), now retired from a crimson career as one of San Francisco's red-hot madams (her once-elegant Pine Street hostelry is now a booze dispensary called the Fallen Angel). At the Valhalla, Sally's fancy restaurant in Sausalito, Bridges was caught in the men's room last September by two seamen, both unfriendly members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. They worked him over, choked him with his necktie, kicked him, groined him, blackened his eye. Sally sallied into...
Geneva-spirited word came from Moscow that Russia's great Author Feodor Dostoevsky, long dead (since 1881), long slurred by Soviet Communists as a reactionary and neglector of anti-czarist struggle, will soon be restored to the U.S.S.R.'s literary Valhalla. Next February the Soviet state publishing house will start issuing a ten-volume edition of Dostoevsky's fiction, not published in Russian since...
...terrible world closing in upon him. The suicide of his scheming henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together, and the final dispatch of their bodies to Valhalla in the flames of a funeral pyre wrote a tawdry Wagnerian finish to the evil story...
...recent times, registration tables and blood and donation beds have replaced much of the excitement and drama of the hall's earlier days. Henry Adams, in The American Scene, characterized the structure as "the great bristling brick Valhalla ... that house of honor and hospitality which ... dispenses ... laurels to the dead and dinners to the living." But overgrown ivy has largely crowded out the laurels, and the waiters now serve blue-books instead of wine jelly...
Passionately Passive. In 1922 Ernst von Salomon was an accomplice in the murder of Germany's moderate Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau and became a hero to Hitler's followers. Von Salomon was sent to prison for five years, thus making his place in the National Socialist Valhalla secure. Yet, after he was released, he managed to stay out of the Nazi Party, while holding down a cushy job in the Nazi propaganda machine. He even managed to live with his Jewish mistress to the very end of World War II. From such a monstrous clever fellow...