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...last week he packed his bags (16 of them) and with his wife, two-year-old son and governess took a train for Bombay, traveling under the name of Smith. Later, the Smith family was reported on board a ship bound for Britain. London announced that Kratochvil had asked asylum as a political refugee. In a letter of resignation, Kratochvil denounced his country's Red regime and called on his fellow citizens to rise against it. The Czechoslovak embassy in New Delhi promptly denounced his flight as "a betrayal of his country." Said one of the ambassador...
...completion, vinophilic Frenchmen were talking about the most serious flaw of all. A Marseille daily, La France, pointed out with horror that, by building his Radiant City on stilts, the architect had left no room for wine cellars. Said one indignant Marseillais: "Who wants to live in a temperance asylum? Give me a one-story bungalow with four walls, windows, a roofand a wine cellar...
...from the gallows in 1922 was a public and Parliament "scandal" that almost unseated David Lloyd George's coalition government; of a coronary thrombosis; in Broadmoor, England. Wealthy Psychopath True strangled and bludgeoned a prostitute to death, but was finally declared insane and sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. There, under the rule that patients may furnish their cells as they please, he lived for 28 years with Persian rugs, oak bookshelves, his own valet...
...doesn't mean, my boy, that they ought to be in an asylum like Nijinsky the dancer...
...tongue and fingers. Hyper-emotivity. Intelligent. Able to go straight to the core of a doctrine. A didactic tone hostile to originality. Temperament of a professor. Artistic but republican mind. Possibility of a cure following a fit of modesty. His condition requires that ... he be confined in a lunatic asylum, where he can receive the treatment of which he is in need...