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Died. Brigadier General Thomas Bentley Mott (ret.), 87, longtime military aide-de-camp and attaché in Paris, personal representative of General Pershing during World War I; in Biarritz...
...Money. These homely activities made sense to the France that bred Antoine Pinay-not the American tourist's France of roasted chestnuts and rhinestoned poodles on the Champs-Ely-sées, "Allo darleeng" in the Place Pigalle, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent, bikinis at Biarritz and baccarat at Nice-but the provincial France of hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid, stucco-faced building...
...count and a Spanish grandee of such exalted lineage that he was entitled to keep his hat on while chatting with his king. Making himself Bolivian minister to France (to avoid the nuisance of paying French taxes), old Simón handsomely built his own legation-plus palaces in Biarritz and Nice-and three Bolivian mansions, costing $30 million, two of which he never even saw before his death...
Elsewhere photographers snapped some candid shots of part-time sports figures in lesser events: in Biarritz on a recent vacation, two-year-old Arabella, daughter of Randolph and granddaughter of Winston Churchill, huffed & puffed till her tongue hung out playing solitaire with a beach ball. In Falkenstein, Germany, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy practiced place-kicks before a game of touch football between his office staff and a team of American newspaper correspondents. The practice paid off: McCloy 's eleven trounced the writers...
...Biarritz canceled the unveiling, refused to pay Cousino, and had the pyramid carted off to the city dump. But Biarritz still wants Eugenie. The city fathers are looking for another sculptor...