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PARADE'S SPECIALC Intelligence Report Because of volume of mail received. Parade regrets it cannot answer queries. By Lloyd Shearer 1983 Paris at Night-Dangerous in the Park Cary Grant at 80 clothes and makeup, pack knives in their bras or purses, masquerade as female prostitutes, and often rob and harm their unsuspecting male customers. They began frequenting the Bois in the late 1970s and are now thought by the police to number 500 or more. A large percentage are said to be heroin addicts who were run out of Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam and Hamburg.

The gendarmes who are accustomed to and tolerant of female prostitution, which is not illegal in France are in the midst of a concentrated campaign to rid the Bois of those they call "the Brazilians." At Long Last. Justice One of "the Brazilians," with canine protector, in Bois de Boulogne ome Jan. 18, when he ffcJturns 80, screen star Cary I I Grant tall, white-haired, perpetually tan and handsome will be the subject of countless biographies, magazine articles and TV programs providing a retrospective look at his long, quintessentially rags-to-riches life. How much of the retrospection will be truth and how much fiction is difficult to tell, since most of the important characters in his life are dead. And Grant, unlike many of his fellow film personalities, has never been impelled to engage with reporters in the cathartic confessional.

Verbally adroit, Cary Grant learned decades ago how to politely evade parry or filibuster searching questions, especially those involving his relationship with any of his five wives Virginia Cherrill, Barbara Hutton, Betsy Drake, Dyan Cannon and the incumbent, Barbara Harris. This reporter remembers asking Grant on a flight from Los Angeles to London, "Of all the women in your life, which would you describe as 'the great love in my and why?" "I'll tell you," he replied pleasantly. "Hollywood is very much like a streetcar. Once a new star is made and comes aboard, an old one is edged out of the rear exit. There's room for only so many and no more." Similar questions invading his privacy were met with similar non sequiturs.

A frugal multimillionaire who is ambivalent about money. Grant retired from acting in 1966 when wife Dyan Cannon gave birth to his only child, Jennifer, now a freshman at Stanford University. Since then, he has spent much of his time as a director of Faberge, the cosmetics corporation, traveling about the world in the company's aircraft and promoting its products. Very much a part of the film colony's social life, he is in public always the film-star fashion plate, meticulously turned out and looking 20 years younger than he is a tribute more to heredity (his mother died at 96) than to any health regimen he practices. Of the spate of forthcoming material on his life, we recommend the biography The Private Cary Grant, by William Mcintosh and William Weaver, two gentlemen who were associated with him in various capacities over the years and reveal firsthand what Grant undoubtedly wishes they had not his experiences with the opposite sex, his true background, his wile and his way.

World War II, a group of 854 aborigines stationed in the front line of Australia's defenses were threatened with death by firing squad ention Paris, and one thinks not necessarily 71 I in this order) of the I I I Eiffel Tower' Notre JU Dame, the Seine, the when they mutinied over their pay. The aborigines from whose descendants the British had stolen Australia were furious because, as black soldiers, they were paid only $5.40 a month, half the wages paid to white soldiers. At war end, the aborigines (who reside on Thursday Island, off the North Queensland coast) continued to battle for their back pay. It has taken almost 40 years, but Australia's government recently agreed to settle the aborigines' Louvre and the Bois de Boulogne The Bois, one of the most picturesque parks in the world, bounds Paris on the west. Used and enjoyed by thousands of Parisians in the daytime joggers, strollers, picnickers, students, children and the retired the Bois at night is transformed into a dangerous sexual jungle peopled by prostitutes, pimps and perverts of every type.

Over the years, "the park has become so notorious that tour packagers offer special nighttime bus trips as ingredients of their "Paris After Dark" or "Paris at Night" tours. Moreover, enterprising publishers are selling French, English, Japanese and German versions of a detailed "Sexual Map of the Bois de Boulogne" at $5 a copy. It points out where the action is and which areas have been taken over by the female prostitutes, the male prostitutes and the Brazilian transvestites. (A transvestite is a person with a compulsion to wear clothes appropriate to the opposite sex.) This last group has been the subject of endless exposes in the French press. The Brazilian transvestites of Paris are men who wear women's Allan Holding: Good news for the aborigines claim with payments totaling $6.7 million to them or their dependents over three years.

For decades, says Allan Clyde Holding, the minister for aboriginal affairs, successive Australian governments have kept secret "the illegal and immoral situation" regarding the compensation dispute. Jennifer Grant, now a Stanford freshman, enjoys date with her dapper dad PARADE MAGAZINE DECEMBER 11, 1983 PAGE.