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...Angeles Mirror-News. She has a teen-age son, Redmond Barnett, whom Beadle has legally adopted. They live on Pasadena's San Pasqual Street near the Caltech campus in a charming, rambling house that once belonged to Dr. Morgan and was sold by his widow to Caltech. The grounds glow with flowers, some of them experiments in genetics but still attractive, and a patrol of eight Siamese cats keeps watch on everything interesting. Beadle is fond of all cats, but Siamese cats are his favorites. He explains that they would be dark all over except for a mutated gene...
Still stern to the memory of his onetime commander, General Charles de Gaulle refused a request from the widow of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, wavering head of the fascist puppet Vichy government during World War II, asking that her husband's remains, now on the lonely Ile d'Yeu, be transferred to a graveyard at Verdun, site of his great 1916 defensive victory over the Germans...
...Navy. Angry critic of the parliamentary "gravediggers of our Empire," whom he blamed for the loss of Indo-China, Tunisia. Morocco, Jacquinot also charged that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were "in league" to rob France of North Africa. A longtime bachelor, he married a wealthy widow five years ago at the time of his unsuccessful bid to become President of France...
Down the steps of St. Vincent's Church in Lisbon walked faded, sixtyish Elena (Magda) Lupescu, longtime mistress and later wife of Rumania's late ex-King Carol, who lies buried in the church's pantheon. A widow since 1953, blonde, green-eyed Magda was Carol's faithful companion in palace and in exile for more than 30 years, now lives quietly at the villa they once shared in nearby Estoril, avidly plays canasta with a small circle of friends...
...children of the plain the most miserable were the widow Dufresne (Jo Van Fleet) and her two grown children (Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano), because they knew that they were miserable. The picture tells how the little family of French pioneers fought the sun and the sea and the jungle but were slowly devoured by the usual worms of lust and greed and indolence. And in the family's fall is mutely, eloquently epitomized the larger collapse of the French regime beneath what used to be called the white man's burden...