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...dismay of the French Press and public, to the vast relief of the Ministry of Justice, the nine-month duel of wits between Besson and "Bouboule" ended last week. Onetime Deputy Hippolyte Marcellin Philibert Besson, who took to doing card tricks in a Montmartre café, was arrested by plump Police Inspector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Triumph of Bouboule | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

Delmont ("Bouboule" to the French Press because of his resemblance to a fat comic strip character popular throughout France). Besson was dragged to headquarters to start serving the ten-month jail sentence that seemed about to end forever his political career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Triumph of Bouboule | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...little less than one-third of the time-the first two hours out of Los Angeles, the last two hours before landing in Brooklyn. The rest of the time, the ship was guided by "Mr. Zilch," Commander Hawks's name for a robot pilot built by George De Besson, California engineer. Said Pilot Hawks: ''The only trouble was I got sleepy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...flat Besson cornet with C attachment for sale. Write or apply at 18 Felton Hall, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 2/7/1898 | See Source »

...flat Besson cornet with C attachment for sale. Write or apply at 18 Felton Hall, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 2/5/1898 | See Source »

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