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Legrand had never been there* but for 15 years he had lived in French Morocco. His house in the city of Rabat (pop. 160,800) had a cellar studio where he worked through the heat of the day. It served as a base for sketching trips made by horse, mule and camel across Morocco's stony plains and into the Atlas Mountains. Swathed in a burnoose, Legrand often camped with Berbers, used them as models for such prophets as Joshua and Jeremiah (see cut). Once in his travels, he says, a Berber witch whose advances he repulsed...
...office in Houston's Shell Building boasts gleaming brown morocco leather furniture, a five-foot tinted photograph of Glenn McCarthy, five bronze-plated baby shoes (he has four daughters: Mary Margaret, 18, Glennalee, 17, Leah, 15, Faustine, 12, and an eleven-year-old son, Glenn Jr.) and Miss Houston of 1945. The ex-Miss Houston, an imperious and well-endowed young woman named Averill Knigge, serves him as secretary...
Dorothy (Road to Morocco) Lamour was off to Houston with her husband, Adman Bill Howard, for a personal-appearance date, after posing for a picture in Hollywood with her three-month-old son, Richard Thomson Howard. Said Dotty of the baby and his older brother, John, 4: "Now that I have two boys I can do my own 'Road' pictures at home. That house, believe me, is as crazy as a 'Road' picture with the two kids yelling at once...
...different, completely unconventional," the new magazine often seemed like a blurred carbon copy of such well-established originals as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country. The best things in the first issue: French Artist Raymond Peynet's amorously whimsical drawings, a sepia and black Baedeker of Morocco, a new Tennessee Williams short story...
...boss, the Sultan of Morocco, was unable to catch Raisuli, settled the affair by paying a $70,000 ransom to the bandit to release Perdicaris...