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Married. Patricia ("Honeychile") Wilder Cernadas, 32, Georgia-born playgirl of the International Set, who claimed she once almost shot Egypt's King Farouk, "thinkin' he was a duck"; and Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, 33, who fled Poland just before the German invasion in 1939; she for the third time, he for the second; in Greenwich, Conn...
...Dead Ducks. What could the nation make of a leadership that was in a war that it did not fight as a war, in a crisis it did not treat as critical, arguing for preparation that might not prepare in time? Before congressional committees, the Pentagon's top military men discoursed confidently of their forces-not the forces of today, but what they plan to have two years from now. And Mobilizer Charles Wilson was going around announcing that Stalin would be "a dead duck"-if he attacked the U.S. any time after Jan. 1, 1953. In its unintentional...
Picture on the Wall. Aymé writes about two families, the solid upper-class Lasquins and the bohemian middle-class Ancelots. M. Lasquin, a hard-working industrialist, falls dead at lunch one day, between the trout and the duck with orange sauce. The death is rather ill-timed, for the workers at his factory are restive. Who can take his place there? His son-in-law Pierre is the natural candidate, but Pierre cares nothing for industry and responsibility, or, for that matter, for his pretty young wife, Micheline. Pierre dreams of being a track star, keeps a picture...
...Rambouillet, M. and Mme. Auriol attain a high pitch of activity. Michèle Auriol scurries about directing the beaters to drive copious supplies of game in the direction of favored guests. Vincent with his gun swivels wildly to & fro. Those who know his aim and love their lives, duck. He good-naturedly contradicts any suggestion that somebody else brought down the bird at which he thought he aimed...
...Mannix was a flop at Annapolis. On review, his uniform and brace were technically correct, but the total effect reminded the commandant of somebody "going duck hunting." The Mannix temperament was incorrigibly informal for Annapolis, and the Navy gave up at the end of his plebe year (1932). Dan Mannix found a new vocation for himself-and the makings of a lively little book-when he stopped to watch Flamo, the fire-eater, in a traveling carnival show...