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Party-giving Perle Mesta arrived in Moscow for a visit to the Soviet Union. Asked her profession by a Russian customs inspector, the ex-Minister to Luxembourg replied: "I have none...
...mother here?" asked the police inspector, as he stood by the body...
Tired out from a hard day of counting his money, Baron Scipion du Roure was strolling along Promenade des Anglais in Nice one afternoon when he bumped into an old acquaintance, Inspector Raymond Alberto of the Nice police force. Over pernods, the inspector grew confidential and unfolded an amazing tale of espionage and adventure. Later, he introduced the baron to lean, elegant-looking Lieut. Colonel Berthier of the French intelligence...
...began wondering when he would be paid back by the government. He spoke to his lawyer and his lawyer spoke to French intelligence. They knew of no Colonel Berthier nor the colonel's other associates, except for Alberto. He had, indeed, been a police inspector-but three years before he had been fired for embezzlement. By this time, the baron was hardly surprised to learn that his uranium was sand and his heavy water came straight from...
Last week ex-Inspector Alberto and two Corsicans who portrayed the roles of "Colonel Berthier" and "The Chief" of intelligence were convicted in a Paris court of bamboozling the baron. The judge, however, was impressed. "I congratulate you on your imagination," he told Ringleader Alberto. ". . . How were you able to tell the baron such stupendous tales without ever laughing?" Even Alberto found it a little hard to explain. "He just believed everything," said he. "Even had an asbestos vest made to protect himself from the radiations." The defendants grinned sheepishly and the judge was hardly able to hide a smile...