Word: andre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also in Manhattan last week arrived a surrealist-edited issue of Minotaure ($2.50 a copy), a new artistic & literary French magazine, which one critic called a "public danger." Its cover was by André Derain. It contained an article on ecstasy illustrated by sections of pornographic postcards, reproductions of Braque, Picasso, Matisse, Photographer Man Ray, a discussion of sex symbolism in hats...
...rale of wilfully bungling the Stavisky investigation and then hiring five of the fanciest detectives to track down the murderers of Alexandre Stavisky and of Judge Albert Prince. The Paris-Soir pack of bloodhounds included Detective Story Writers Georges Simenon and André Gaston Leroux, son of the creator of Arsène Lupin; onetime Chief Inspector Alfred C. Collins of Scotland Yard; famed ex-Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, Britain's greatest detective (TIME, July 8, 1929); and last but not least Sir Basil Thomson, onetime Director of Intelligence of the British Secret Service...
...Ring was one Violette Levine, a U. S. schoolteacher. But the shy Violette could not be found. Seven more people were arrested for espionage last week, including a Col. Dumoulin, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, accused of selling documents stolen from the War College, and Camille André, a onetime stockbroker who attempted to peddle naval plans which neither the British nor Japanese consulates in Marseilles needed. Announced the Sûreté Générale: "Police throughout Europe cooperated with us, but we found the aid of the American police most valuable." All this...
Arabia- "Have discovered legendary city of Sheba. Twenty towers or temples still standing. On north boundary Rouba-el-Khali. Have taken photographs for l'Intransigeant-André Malraux." Those electric words, cabled from Djibouti in far-off French Somaliland, last week jerked the editors of Paris' evening paper l'Intransigeant from their mulling over the Stavisky scandal. Soon across the front pages of the world Press flashed what promised to be either the archeological story-of-the-year or the year's No. 1 archeological hoax. André Malraux is a handsome young writer...
Henceforth André Citroën will confine his automotive genius to production, leaving policies to his financial betters. Meantime an army of auditors swarmed over the Citroën ledgers. In Le Soir a realistic financial observer remarked: "It is impossible now to get any exact idea of the company's condition. ... In prosperous days, accounts meant little because increased demand and prices covered everything...