Word: alphands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planners for the 16 nations obediently set about to comply with Clayton's wishes. The full committee cut the estimate of dollar needs to about $17 billion, by the simple but uncertain expedient of assuming that U.S. prices would fall. France's delegate, dapper Herve Alphand, emphasized that, in any case, "the figures in our report are by no means a claim or a demand, they are merely an illustration [of what it would cost to reconstruct Western Europe...
...Algiers, he found his ace economic brain-truster, urbane Herve Alphand, back from London after a successful conference with British officials. The British had reportedly agreed to: 1) transfer civil administration of liberated a.eas behind the battlefront to Gaullist commissioners; 2) recognize the Gaullist Committee's right to issue all currency in liberated France; 3) supply food to the liberated population...
...Alphand has only recently turned professional. Before the war she was prominent in Paris society; she is the wife of Herve Alphand, former Treasury attaché of the Vichy Government in Washington. Her father, Rober-Raynaud, founded La Dépêche Marocaine, the first French daily newspaper in Morocco. When the Alphands arrived in the U.S. three years ago, Herve Alphand said: "In France now there are only two things to do: to work and to be silent. I have come here to work and to be silent." But he did not stay silent long. Less than...
...Alphand had to find a way to earn her living. Her friends had long admired her repertory of some 200 salty popular songs. Helped by a group of them (Lady Mendl, Henry Bernstein, Elsa Maxwell), she began appearing at a French hangout called Le Petit Palais. Among Manhattan's Francophile intelligentsia, her nostalgic music was sensational. Man hattan's Liberty Music Shop issued an album of Alphand recordings, quickly sold 1,000 copies...
Today, though Manhattan's swankest pub-crawlers flock to hear her, Mme. Alphand is already tired of professional life. Says she, with a Gallic shrug: "If I am not to sing, then I must sew, I must make hats or something." But she admits that she is not doing badly in the new world, says: "Heaven was very charming...