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...General Giraud was rushed into the breach at Sedan when the notorious collapse of General André Georges Corap's Ninth Army command was already well under way. Typically, the last message heard from General Giraud before his capture was: "Headquarters surrounded by 100 tanks. Am destroying them...
Died. Jacques Bustanoby, 62, famed pre-World War I restaurateur (Café de la Paix); in Manhattan. He and brothers Pierre, André and Louis rode the crest of extravagant wining and dining in Manhattan before Prohibition, introduced dinner dances, the first women's bar in the city, lured Vernon and Irene Castle as entertainers. Rudolph Valentino as a $10-a-week gigolo...
...Time No Come No See. The lavish, profiteering drama of the International Settlement was ending. But outside the Settlement's barbed-wire fences there was a Shanghai that would remain much the same - the teeming, filthy, odorous native city of 3,500,000 Chinese, the Shanghai described by André Malraux...
...first allocatee-to-be: Venezuela. His guest list included State's Dean Acheson, Economic Defense Board's Assistant Director Colonel Royal B. Lord, and two big visiting Venezuelan buyers of supplies (Central Bank President J. M. Herrera Mendoza and Caracas Chamber of Commerce Vice President Andrés Boulton...
...Française, in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, is run by a wispy, gentle, bespectacled little Frenchman named V. S. Crespin, who became a U.S. citizen in 1925. He set up a business importing new, old and rare books from France. One day after France's downfall André Maurois dropped in to see him with the manuscript of a new book, Tragédie en France. Of course Maurois could get it translated into English, but he would like also to publish it in the original. Then & there Crespin decided to start publishing books in French...