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Like everything else in Paris, the Club des Cinq, at the foot of Montmartre, was down at heel. The decor-very modern—was shabby; the champagne-very expensive-was poor. The worn-looking, faded singer who came on half an hour after midnight matched the setting well. She had frizzled brown hair, a little black dress and cork-soled shoes. She was called La Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow...
...interviewed General Weygand in Syria—went to Egypt to see the defenses of Suez and to appraise King Farouk's loyalty to Britain—was caught by the great earthquake at far-away Erzincan on the Euphrates while he and Margaret Bourke-White were photo-reporting their way through Turkey...
...rough stage, with the windowless cabin in the background, looked synthetic. The linsey-woolsey costumes looked as if they had just come out of attic trunks. But the music—the singing, fiddling and twanging of guitars, banjos and dulcimers—was the real McCoy: mountain music, with rough edges as unpolished as stones. On the hills near Ashland, Ky., country folk and tourists gathered this week for Ashland's twelfth annual American Folk Song Festival...
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