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Refusing his half of the $25,000 offered by Count Marc de Tristan for the return of his three-year-old son, broad-shouldered Cecil Wetzel (who has three children) did a turn at a Los Angeles theatre instead, giving an account of the rescue (TIME, Sept. 30). He remarked: "I've got kids of my own." He netted $2,000. Winding up in San Diego (with business terrible): "I'll never go on the stage again...
From a sobbing, grey-haired little woman Agent Pieper got the story. The woman, Mary Foley, nursemaid in the home of wealthy Count Marc de Tristan, had been taking three-year-old Marc Jr. for a walk when a car drove up beside them. A black-a-vised, beak-nosed man leaped out, grabbed Marc, slugged her when she fought him, sped off with the child towards San Mateo...
...raising had been the abductor's "charming supervision." Once, on his headlong drive through the high Sierras, the car had plunged over a 40-foot embankment. Clambering back with the child, he seized at gun's point the next car that came along the highway. Miraculously unharmed, Marc was back in his mother's arms that evening...
...east coast of Australia), which owe allegiance to Britain & France jointly, repudiated the Government of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain in Vichy, pledged their resources and man power to the "free France" of General Charles de Gaulle in London. In nearby French-owned New Caledonia, where Governor Marie-Marc-Georges Pélicier has offered his allegiance to the Pétain Government, the local assembly declared its intention of continuing the war under General de Gaulle. With the Japanese just over the horizon and already in Indo-China (see p. 35), the New Hebrides and New Caledonia wanted...
Once, after a furious row during rehearsals, she turned on her vegetarian adorer with: "Some day you'll eat a pork chop, and then God help all women!" Much more blandly she told bald Playwright Marc Connelly that she hadn't recognized him right off because he was wearing his hair a new way. She could meet any situation. One day, when her dog misbehaved in a taxicab, the driver let off a stream of profanity. Stella Campbell stared coldly at him, drawled, "Young man, that was me." She always did as she pleased. She was reputedly...