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We're big fans of Jamison Foser. We augment his recent time-line

An excuse to talk about Fanne Foxe , “the Argentine Firecracker!” Collins, of course, burst on the scene with her fatuous book, Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics.

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We're big fans of Jamison Foser. We augment his recent time-line

Washington Social Diary

Wilbur Mills, powerful democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, had a sweetie named Fanne Foxe , a DC stripper known as the “Argentine Firecracker.” One frisky, juiced-up night in 1974 their weaving car got pulled over by the …

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Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche: John Locke and the Argentine Connection

When plucked from the water she turned out to be Annabelle Battistella, alias Fanne Foxe , a strip-tease artiste even better known as the Argentine Firecracker—a name based partly in her nationality and partly in the details of her art. …

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Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche: John Locke and the Argentine Connection

I Just Met a Girl Named Maria

Back in October of that year, Fanne Foxe (real name Annabelle Battistella) came close to toppling US Congressman Wilbur Mills from his powerful perch as chairman of the House Ways and Means committee. Mills was a veteran Democrat from …

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I Just Met a Girl Named Maria