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When Carla Francis had finished dressing for a Dallas dinner party, her lawyer husband James took one look at her laced-up Merry Widow costume and expostulated, "Mercy! Are you going out that way?" "It does call attention," agreed Carla. "But Yves Saint Laurent says...
...first grandchild for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, will be fifth in succession to the British throne. · Married. David Cassidy, 26, teeny-bopper heartthrob who sang his way to rock stardom on TV's The Partridge Family in 1970; and Kay Lenz, 24, who played the widow Kate on ABC'S Rich Man, Poor Man series; in Las Vegas...
...year ago was a city on the edge of anarchy. Almost daily, terrorists of the left and right kidnaped or murdered business executives, military officers and union leaders. Bombs ravaged army barracks, public buildings and vital industries. Under the inept government of Juan Perón 's widow Isabel, inflation in Argentina was galloping at an annual rate of 350%. The Treasury, down to its last foreign reserves, was about to default on its overseas debt. Then, on March 24, in a bloodless, clockwork coup, the military deposed Isabel Peron from the presidency. Led by the Commander in Chief...
When a skinny, secretive old man who called himself "Hal Groves" died in Mexico eight years ago, one' of literature's strangest paper chases came to an end. Services were held not for Groves but for "Traven Torsvan," a naturalized Mexican citizen. The dead man's widow acknowledged what had been widely suspected: that Torsvan, who had hidden his identity for 45 years, was indeed the reclusive novelist B. Traven. The author's broody, metallic style echoes that of Stephen Crane and Joseph Conrad. His once acclaimed books and short-story collections (The Treasure...
...inward pilgrimage of sorts. When he returned to Harvard he made a decision that had been forming for some time: he converted to Christianity. He now keeps a Bible in his office bookcase and frequently alludes to little-known passages, including one from the Book of Kings about a widow who had a cruse of oil that never ran out. In the U.S. today, he adds grimly, "There is no widow's cruse...