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...places. We stood just behind a row of ballerinas draped along the edge of the stage. One of the group twirled the end of a rope near a ballerina who was still stationing herself. In a slightly hurt voice and in uncertain English she pouted "a-a. .pl-eese." Four of us practiced pulling a cart decorated with flowers across the stage. This was to be the finale. "Now just relax ourselves," said the ballet master...
...alive by coaxing the publishing firm of Nicholson & Watson Ltd. into taking a planned loss of ?6,000 a year (roughly $24,000) as a "prestige gesture." With Poetry London and the ?6,000, Tambi played his role of sub-patron of the arts with a flourish, built PL's circulation to 10,000, made it a proving ground for Britain's promising younger poets. But a managerial rift brought the magazine to its death...
...about Communism, and John, visibly annoyed, snorting: "You're all afraid of Communists. I'm afraid of Nazis." Those who saw him then thought that he was short tempered, nervous, almost in a daze. His wife said he was "mentally depressed." At the memorial ceremony in grisly Plötzensee Prison, he seemed haggard beyond his 44 years...
...ringleaders were tortured for days by Gestapo experts. Finally. Hitler said: "It is my wish that they be hanged like cattle." The eight were stripped, and as they shivered in the chilly dawn, their necks were encircled by short, thin string attached to meathooks in the torture chamber in Plötzensee Prison. Each man was then dropped to strangle slowly. Nazi cameramen captured the convulsive spectacle on film, and that night Hitler ran off the movie for the enjoyment of himself and his guests...
...deathly stillness when Franklin turned up at the casino. Franklin sauntered over to his table, picked up the Correo Andaluz and started reading. One Alcalá cattle dealer, braver than his fellows, crossed the smoky room, cleared his throat and said: "Listen Seňor Franklino. If Plácido fails to show up another time, just let me know. I'll bring down my team of working mules from the farm. Please never do that again. It's bad for the fiesta." Franklin rose, bowed gravely and replied: "Thank you, senor. I'll do that...