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...officers who picked him out of 40 applicants for the Moscow assignment, were exonerated by the tribunal, which judged him "weak" but not overtly queer. However, admitted the report, Vassall's young colleagues in the embassy ridiculed his "effeminate" ways and called him "Vera." The passionate Pole soon guessed his secret, and life began anew for Vera Vassall. Eager to share his new conquest, Sig introduced Vassall to other gay types. "I shall never forget," Vassall wrote to an older man in London, "the many unusual and extraordinary happenings that go on here, which must come to few people...
...amount of research is too much for him. He goes where the story is. A few weeks ago, he got on a freighter in Vera Cruz and rode with seven boring fellow passengers to Houston in preparation for his movie adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools. In Rome, between sessions with De Sica, he popped around to Miss Porter's hotel room to confer with her on the script. In Mexico, he was also collecting impressions for his script of Children of Sanchez. Soon he will be in Georgia and Mississippi soaking up attitudes...
...Main on the effects in NATO, James Wilde on the French business reaction, Godfrey Blunden on an analysis of the Soviet view. Their files, along with reports from TIME bureaus in Washington, Bonn, London and Rome, poured into New York, where Writer Robert McLaughlin, with the aid of Researcher Vera Kovarsky, wrote the story for Senior Editor Edward Hughes. For the cover, Artist Boris Chaliapin reached back to two other men who had visions of French grandeur, and placed Napoleon's hat on Louis...
Caldwell's mortal wound comes from the indifference of students at Olinger (read Olympus) High, and the casual thunderings of its Principal Zimmerman (read Zeus). He is, moreover, tormented by the teasing lechery of Vera (Venus), the gym teacher, and the unreliability of his old Buick, which must be fixed by Vera's husband Hummel (Hephaestus), a cuckolded garage keeper...
...Paul Roebling), who clearly hopes to stay on for free. Craftily suspicious of freeloaders, Flora keeps the handsome young man at one villa's distance while she rifles his field pack to learn that he is 34 and constructs mobiles. A witchy visitor of Flora's vintage, Vera Ridgeway Condotti (Mildred Dunnock), warns her that Chris has been nicknamed "Angel of Death," having been the questionable companion of several old ladies at the time of their demise. Bent on one last fleshly fling, Flora decides to seduce Chris...