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...week's end, the British Foreign Office fired off a "strong protest" to Moscow, insisted that the Soviet government issue forthwith instructions "to ensure that there is no recurrence of any incident of this kind." But the indignation was more official than real. Erich Teayn will undoubtedly get political asylum. And no one thought the Shetland Islands were in any danger so long as there were canny crofters like Willie Fraser...
...powerful forehand was unbeatable, her sliced backhand was too cute for Althea to handle, her serve had a vicious hop. And as her confidence grew, her shots sharpened. She ran Althea off the court, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. It was the decisive match; Christine and her teammates forthwith walked off with the Wightman Cup (4-3) for the first time in 28 years...
...said that Saud had approached him through one of Saud's fathers-in-law, Syrian-born Assad Ibrahim. According to Ibrahim, said Serraj, Saud considered Nasser's union "Egyptian imperialism," and had sworn "by his father's soul that this union shall not take place." Ibrahim forthwith offered Serraj financial and moral support for the Syrian presidency if Serraj would lead a coup...
Hitler's Author. Calling herself Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, she sued for and got all her brother's manuscripts. Forthwith, she grandiosely renamed her family home the Nietzsche Archive, where she exhibited Nietzsche, white-gowned and empty-eyed, to teatime guests. But she allowed no one else a look at the manuscripts, put together her brother's last writings in a volume that she entitled The Will to Power. This is the book which pan-Germans and Nazis acclaimed as "Nietzsche's crowning philosophical work . . . the most important philosophical system of the 19th century...
VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ. terrible-tempered, anticlerical novelist, was looking for a female lead for the movie of his novel. Blood and Sand, when at a party he met pious, vixen-toothed Actress Nita ("Nixie") Naldi, who screamed forthwith: "You Bolshevik! You heathen! . . . You worm! You Pagan! You anti-Christ!" Ibanez shrilled back so excitedly that his -'upper plate fell out of his mouth into Nixie's bosom." Whereupon the hostess, "who had hoped for a stimulating evening, but not this stimulating, quickly reached down into Nixie, pulled out the teeth, rinsed them in the punch...