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...Author Max White fluttered the critics with a first novel (Tiger Tiger) about the life and lively loves of a fictional U.S. artist. Now he has romanticized the life and livelier loves of a historical tartar-Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, Spain's famed 18th-Century etcher and painter...
Gloria Swanson, high-styled siren of the silents, trim and tiger-eyed at 46, fought her fifth husband* for high-styled support, went to court in Manhattan for separate maintenance of $1,000 a week. Wall Streeter William N. Davey had the money, said she, but they didn't get along: 1) he drank too much; 2) she wanted to live at her place on Fifth Avenue, he at his on Park; 3) she liked twin beds, he a double one big enough to sleep a ball team; 4) he talked about building her a yacht with a glass...
...please Mr.. Tiger, don't eat me up, and I'll give you my beautiful little Purple Shoes with Crimson Soles and Crimson Linings...
...sharp warning of impending hostilities had gone out from General Marshall to Lieut. General Walter C. Short in Hawaii. On Nov. 28, General Short replied that he had ordered an alert against sabotage-which was like saying he had a butterfly net ready for a tiger. Yet his reply was never challenged by Washington...
...their misery during the Japanese defense of Manila, Filipinos spoke the name of General Tomoyuki Yamashita as if it were blasphemous. When peace came and the "Tiger of Malaya" was brought to trial, they crowded the courtroom to stare. As they had expected, he looked like an ogre-a squat, shaven-headed, simian figure in a green uniform. When prosecution witnesses told of the raping, killing and burning which Manila had endured at Japanese hands, many in the audience guessed that the verdict would be quick and harsh...