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...Francoise, now 30, was Picasso's fourth great love. From 1904 to 1917 he lived with a famous beauty known as "La Belle Fernanda." In 1918 he married Ballerina Olga Koklova (who bore him a son), divorced her in 1937. From 1938 to 1945 his girl was Photographer Dora Maar...
...opening scenes Brando almost seems convincing as the brash young general who knew he would conquer Europe, while Miss Simmons is winsome without being sticky. But by the end of the picture--and this perhaps may be a very subtle intentional change--Brando is only a powerful bore, mouthing bad aphorisms in an Old School accent, while Miss Simmons' archness has become a bit wearing...
...Mistake. Cambridge-educated and an ex-Grenadier Guardsman, "King Freddie," as Londoners came to know him, bore his fate with philosophical good manners. Sustained by a tax-free allowance of ?8,000 from the Crown, he set up housekeeping in a tastefully furnished flat in London's fashionable Belgravia, passed his time reading, attending the theater, discussing everything from art to EDC with old friends, and in general playing the part of a serious-minded and well-behaved West End gentleman. Britons came to admire the Kabaka's refusal to foment trouble; they were even more impressed...
...work with delicate tools to separate the bones from the rock, but already Lewis can describe the animal roughly. It was about as big as a cocker spaniel, with a long, heavy tail. Lewis does not know yet whether it had hair or scales, whether it laid eggs or bore its young alive, or how it made its living. When he has completed his work, he hopes to know all these things about man's low but aspiring ancestor...
...babies at feeding time. At first despite hospital tests they insisted that they, had taken the right babies home to rear. Then, reluctantly, they agreed to switch. Swiss Housewife Madeleine Joye's predicament was even worse. She had no cause to suspect that one of the twins she bore on July 4, 1941 was not her son. True, Philippe grew up skinny and Paul plump: they were "as different as a cock from a rabbit." When the boys were six, Mrs. Joye met little Ernstli, a frail youngster who looked so much like Philippe that she began to wonder...