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...tourists were warned off by the high prices noted in guidebooks. The Café de la Paix might have toppled like a French Cabinet had it not been for energetic Paul Chapotin, 41, son-in-law of the restaurant's second-generation owner, 74-year-old André Millon. To boost the family's sagging revenues, Chapotin started the successful Pam-Pam chain of quick-lunch restaurants, two years ago quietly opened a Pam-Pam in the Café de la Paix bar, around the corner from the Place...
Chapotin hopes that tourists who drop in for hush puppies and Cokes will come back for frogs' legs and the cognac that Founder André Millon laid down three-quarters of a century before the democratic revolution...
...good friends on TIME are NATIONAL AFFAIRS Editor Max Ways and London Bureau Chief André Laguerre. A strong bond between them is their fond devotion to the ancient, if somewhat occult, science of handicapping. Ways regards Laguerre as the sage of Paris' Longchamp and London's Ascot, while Laguerre considers Ways nonpareil when it comes to picking them at New York's Belmont and Miami's Hialeah. Last week the old friends were getting ready to trade these special fields of endeavor: Laguerre is coming to the U.S. as assistant managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
Even Frenchmen inured to the back biting and cynical misbehavior of their politicos were shocked last week by a sensational trial in Paris. Eighteen months ago André Baranès, a devious little Tunisian newspaperman and police informer, was arrested for transmitting vital French defense secrets to a Communist newspaper publisher. Baranés claimed he had got the information from two assistants of respected, 50-year-old Jean Mons, secretary general of the Defense Committee (France's rough equivalent of the U.S.'s National Security Council). Last week, as the trial of Mons, Baran...
Well preserved by the alcohol,* Jones's body was autopsied by Paris Pathologist André Victor Cornil, who snipped bits of tissue from the heart, lungs, spleen and kidneys. The lungs showed evidence of pneumonia and possibly TB, from which Jones was known to have suffered. The kidney tissue showed the effects of nephritis, from which the great captain had died. Pathologist Cornil had the kidney slides photographed; the pictures were sent to the U.S. Congress along with Ambassador Porter's report...