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Died. Mme Clémentine Delait, 74, France's most famed bearded woman; in Epinal. Because her café, where she peddled picture post cards of herself (mustache, sideburns, foot-long beard), prospered, Mme Delait repeatedly spurned the overtures of importunate circus-owners...
Besides Half-Brother Alois, who now runs a prosperous Berlin café (discreetly under his first name), Adolf Hitler has a full sister and a half-sister. For a time his half-sister, Angela, served as his housekeeper at Berchtesgaden. His father, also named Alois, was a source of great shame to the Führer: he had three wives* and died a drunkard. Furthermore, Father Alois was the illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl, Maria Schicklgruber, and a miller named Johann Hiedler, who refused to recognize the child. The boy therefore grew up under his mother...
...Castles' career was a preview of subsequent Hollywood story patterns. They literally became famous overnight. It was a night in March 1911, in Paris. There & then, at the Café de Paris, they launched the dancing era by performing to the extraordinary sounds of Too Much Mustard. Within the next five years, the Castles became by far the most celebrated dancing personages of their era. They popularized the Maxixe, the One-Step, the Castle Walk. They opened a chain of four ballrooms and made about $15,000 a week. When Irene Castle bobbed her hair, a million other...
Usually dour and uncommunicative, the Colonel leads a quiet life in Warsaw, lives in new quarters adjoining the Foreign Office, dines about once a week at the swanky Europejski Café, is a steady drinker. The lovely Mme Beck entertains diplomats once monthly - on the 17th. Both Colonel and Mme Beck were married once before, both were divorced. Because they are susceptible to bronchitis, they usually spend several weeks annually on the sunny French Riviera. Last week the Becks and the Cianos were weekending on a gay hunting party in Bialowieza, Europe's largest forest. The Colonel is known...
...Russians fight Russians rather than spill good Nazi blood in his Ukrainian "liberation campaign." Estimated to be 400,000 strong, the White Russians, though scattered, are numerous enough and sufficiently experienced to be of military and propaganda value. Not a few are now in Berlin, where Unter den Linden cafés have buzzed with their plottings...