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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Dream of Bagatelle. The World Wide Wicket Company has become the Tourniquet Transcontinental Trusting Company, in order to avoid a shabby French tendency to say Vorld Vide Vicket Company. When its president, J. B. Biggley, tells his florid mistress that few people know it but he is an extremely emotional man, she says (in the American version): "God damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: How to Succeed in Paris | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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