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Richard Allen Knight, scurrilous zany-about-town, long missing from Manhattan, where he had consolidated his tabloid fame by loudly losing many a weekend in public, turned up in Mexico. Onetime Attorney Knight (disbarred) was inviting his soul at Cuernavaca, Empress Carlota's hideaway, 40 miles from Mexico City. His constant companion: Dorothy Ledyard Knight Kniffin, once his wife, now Reville Kniffin's. Playboy Knight kept his end up in expatriate society: he stood on his head in one hotel lobby, stood on his head on another hotel porch, tried publicly to imitate Frankenstein's monster, and sometimes jumped up & down and cried, "Woo! Woo!" Fellow expatriates, accustomed to all sorts & conditions, paid him little mind.
* His predecessor: the former Sir Alan Francis Brooke, who linked two of his names to become Lord Alanbrooke.