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Born. To Errol Leslie Flynn, 37, swashbuckler of cinema, café and courtroom, and Nora Eddington Flynn, 23: their second daughter, his third child (he has a son by his former wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Rory. Weight...
...pages of a Russian novel. They range from desperate male & female aristocrats, struggling frenziedly to retain their power and money, to hordes of sly, ice-hard usurers, pimps and blackmailers. The never-ending battle between these two groups is fought out in luxurious palaces, in squalid lodging houses, and cafés filled with the thick stench of "burned meat, restaurant napkins, and tobacco...
Africa's underslung, café-au-lait Basenjis ("bush things") are no exception. For generations they have tracked game for chiefs in the Belgian Congo, emitting only an occasional soft "groo," plaintively yodeling during the mating season, but never barking. Last week, however, in London's Trinity Hall, at the annual show of the British Basenji Club, a barkless Basenji barked. It was the end of 6,000 years of canine taciturnity. "My breath simply went," gasped Acting Club Secretary Veronica Tudor Williams. "Quite a bombshell," muttered the permanent secretary...
Despite the forints, prices are still enormous. Said a café wit after studying the fish courses on the menu: "When the news of these prices reaches Lake Balaton, the fogas* will be so flattered that they'll swim in to give themselves...
...Paris, Señora Lucienne Benitez Rexach, wife of a Puerto Rican millionaire, drowned her sorrows in champagne. From her hotel suite outside Paris, thieves had stolen $435,000 of her jewels and pocket money. But the victim, who before her recent marriage was a café singer known to Montmartre as Môme Moineau (Kid Sparrow), considers the burglars outrageously inefficient: in the same suite they overlooked another cache of jewels (value...