Word: amours
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...felt it. Radio dance orchestras announced as many tunes as possible by French titles (Parlez Moi d'Amour). Manhattan's Hildegarde, a songstress who worked in Paris cafes in the '303 went on plugging the sentimental melody which she had helped to make No. 1 on the Hit Parade: I'll Be Seeing You (in "all the old familiar places" of Paris, the lyrics imply). Milliner Lilli Dache (whose newest creation is a hat composed of a single pink garter) and Dressmaker Hattie Carnegie announced they would take the first possible boat to Paris...
...cognac et I'amour. In Mme. Chideu's till, the purple-and-green invasion currency brought in by the Allies mingles with old Bank of France notes. At first most shopkeepers worried because the printing on the new currency said only that the money was issued in France, named no guarantor. Now Mme. Chideu and her customers accept the Allied notes without question. Only the higher-ups still fret...
...their new notes right away. But the principal holders of the new notes are soldiers, who are too busy fighting to spend money. Towns are usually off limits, so G.I.s and Tommies remain in the countryside, where their bright bank notes raise hell only with prices for cognac and amour. Furthermore, the invading armies bring along almost everything they need and buy only a small amount of local goods...
Mary Patricia Chalifoux went to Montreal with her two children to begin a vigil. Her husband, Dieppe-Raider D'Amour Chalifoux, is in a Nazi prison camp...
...Chagall says of surrealism "Not for me." A hater of realism as well, he refuses to be joined by any artistic school. He will not even discuss his own work. "Monsieur," he says in his dense Vitebsk French (he speaks no English), "l'art est comme l'amour. If your wife is ugly, you do not talk about her looks. If she is beautiful, they speak for both...