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...PRAISE of IDLENESS-Bertrand Russell-Norton ($2.50). Characteristically temperate and lucid, if uninspiring, essays on such subjects as architecture, Socialism, Communism & Fascism, cynicism in the young...
...Francis Norris, a suave British bear raider. Last week a nod from Governor Tannery expelled another British bear, 27-year-old Serge Rubenstein, brilliant Cambridge economist and founder of Paris' Franco-Asiatic Bank. A third young man who sold too many francs short to suit Gold Cock Tannery was Bertrand Coles Neidecker, fugitive U. S. founder of Paris' closed Travelers Bank (TIME...
...maiden voyage (TIME, June 10). They walked off the Champlain at Havre last week and for two days most of her 670 passengers were fed and bedded in Havre hotels at French Line expense. Meanwhile the men's leaders wrangled in Paris with Minister of Merchant Marine William Bertrand, saddest man on the Normandie's maiden voyage.* Since employees of the French Line are paid largely by State subsidy, M. Bertrand insisted last week that they must take the 10% wage cut State servants must take. But this sternness M. Bertrand followed by a question. Would the French...
...Because the Flandin Cabinet fell while he was at sea and a rival politician on the spot in Paris copped his job of Minister of Merchant Marine in the new Laval Cabinet. Friends on the Normandie warned M. Bertrand that this would happen, urged him to call up M. Laval by radio telephone. ''That is not done!" exploded French M. Bertrand. "I cannot remind the President of the Council that I exist, by telephone...
...return trip, in token of his shelving, M. Bertrand ceased to dine on the Normandie with the wife of the President of France. After this self-effacement, which Frenchmen considered in exceedingly good taste, he put on a short, sharp political fight in Paris to get back his job as Minister of Marine...