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...years with an expatriate young Austrian ski instructor. Daughter of one French army officer and wife of another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal of her love. She persuaded him to tear...
Children adored him; so did the mangy, half-starved dogs that wandered with him through the steep, cobblestoned streets of mountaintop La Paz. For 20 years, this tall foreigner with the long blond beard had gone about the Indian capital selling pencils. One morning two years ago, he was found dead in the streets-of a heart attack, the coroner said...
Later, Captain King was opposed in a lawsuit by a blond-bearded young lawyer, Robert Justus Kleberg "The First," son of a German émigré. Kleberg won the suit, and King was so impressed that he hired him as his own lawyer. When Captain King died in 1885 at 60, he left his widow, Henrietta, 500,000 acres of land and a $500,000 debt. She asked Bob the First to manage the ranch. Soon he married her youngest daughter Alice...
...Palaces. The pilots were blond, boyish Clifford Evans, 27, an ex-A.A.F. pilot, and stubby, pot-bellied George Truman*, 39, a veteran flying instructor. Last summer they wangled two used Super Cruiser airframes from Piper Aircraft, engines from Lycoming, Gyrosyn compasses from Sperry and radio, equipment from Bendix. They ripped out the passenger seat behind the pilot's seat and installed 100-gallon tanks, packed in a few charts, radio spares, a can of dope (i.e., glue) for repairing the wing fabric, one good suit and a white shirt apiece. Early in August, they kissed their wives goodbye...
...modernistic public lobby was filled with people who had come for a quick look at history before the Second General Assembly of the United Nations adjourned. A group of children clustered around a counter as excitedly as though it displayed candy and comics rather than U.N. literature. A tall, blond boy jumped up & down. "Sammy," he cried, "Sammy, lend me a nickel...