Word: kay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underworld. Around the time of the death of his wife, who drowned in a bathtub last March, De Vathaire took up with a nightclub hostess, the estranged wife of a man wanted by the Paris police. A friend of hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant to Jean Kay, a flamboyant adventurer best known for his aborted 1971 hijacking of a Pakistan Airlines plane supposedly for the purpose of sending food to Bangladesh. He is also a mercenary who has fought in Biafra, Yemen, Angola and Nigeria...
...statement he left with the nightclub hostess, De Vathaire claimed he had loaned the Dassault dossier to his new friend, Kay, who failed to return it. According to De Vathaire, Kay threatened to kill him and demanded money in exchange for the dossier. Whether to yield to his blackmailer, to divvy up the loot with his accomplice, or just to relax with a pal, De Vathaire met with Kay at a resort hotel near the Swiss border after the theft, whereupon both men vanished. So did the 8 million francs. Last week Kay phoned a Paris newspaper from his hideaway...
...explained. Disciples were given two reeds to sleep on, one under the pillow, the other under the mattress, and instructed to remember their dreams so the Dalai Lama could interpret them during the ceremony. On the platform were two ever present reminders of tantric practice: a statue of Kay-Dor, a ferocious manifestation of the Buddha, and an elaborate mandala, a ritual design used in invocations, made out of ground precious stones and sand...
...Crosby wrote poetry. Boston seemed to blame temporary insanity, dating the onset from 1922, when he quit his job with the Morgan bank in Paris, took up the literary life there and renamed his wife, Polly Peabody, "Caresse." His writer friends-he knew Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Kay Boyle-were not surprised by the toenail paint or the tattoos. Harry did that sort of thing. What did raise an eyebrow or two, briefly, was the suicide. It seemed that Harry meant what he had said...
...Kay. Here ve got new book abot mine debentures vit de beauriful, vunderful English langwitch. You remamber mebbe The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N from 1937? The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N from 1959? Now is mekink vun book from de odder two. (Only de whole kitten cadoodle is new becawss by Rosten is so much rewridink.) Absolutel...