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...Daoud, who has been accused of participating in two of Black September's most famous operations: the Olympic attack and, in 1973, the murder of two U.S. diplomats in Khartoum. Abu Daoud was sitting at a table in the second-floor cafe of Warsaw's Victoria Inter-Continental Hotel last week when a young man suddenly appeared and hit him with five pistol shots. Abu Daoud was seriously wounded; the assailant escaped...
...Catlin's life. He pestered Congress to buy his collection, and when it declined, took the whole shebang to England. There he happily found himself feted as a celebrity and a conversationalist (trimly stocky and handsome, he had great social presence). His Indian dancers performed for Queen Victoria and later for France's King Louis Philippe. He lived grandly and, despite his success, always just beyond his means. He published two volumes of his adventures, illustrated with his own drawings and displaying an exuberant narrative style. He described the Blackfoot-Crow country as a land "where the buffaloes...
...TIME bureau in London, the wedding celebration was the climax of a story that had been building since Lady Diana first tripped into the limelight eleven months ago. Correspondent Mary Cronin observed the wedding party from the Victoria Memorial across from Buckingham Palace. Inside St. Paul's Cathedral, London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo sat directly behind the royal family, hidden from public view by columns. Says she: "It was an exhausting story, but now that it's over, we'll miss the continuing saga of the handsome Prince who found his beautiful Princess...
Edith Sitwell, Victoria Glendinning...
Sitting in bed with her notebooks, she scribbled about anything and everything to pay off her creditors and hold the attention of her entranced public. There was her verse, her superior historical guide (Bath), two biographies of queens (Victoria of England, Fanfare for Elizabeth) and a novel about Jonathan Swift (I Live Under a Black...