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Last week the Alps faced their final defeat. As soon as the snow clears this spring, a French-Italian-Swiss company announced, work will begin on the world's longest automobile tunnel, which will pass right through Mont Blanc, the highest of all the Alps...
...thoughtfully: Austria's Trude Beiser Jochum, winner of the 1950 F.I.S. downhill; Austria's Erika ("Riki") Mahringer, Andy's best friend and, says Andy, "better than Dagmar Rom* ever was"; France's Andree Tournier Bermond, winner of last year's giant slalom at Mont Blanc; Italy's Celina ("The Tigress") Seghi, two-time Arlberg-Kandahar winner; and Germany's Hilde-Suse Gaertner, 1951 Davos-Parsenn Derby winner...
...South" by Milenko Blanc shows equally polished craftsmanship, though again the structure is tenuous. A traveller, middle-aged at 32, stops in New Orleans, where he finds himself undefineably drawn to a night-club dancer. His gradual realization of her perversity is roughly the point of the story; but it is so subtly prepared that some many miss it entirely. The effect derives from expert restraint and ambiguity, qualities that are apparent especially after a second reading...
Detective Sergeant Eleazar Le Blanc, who is temporarily taking over the investigation while Detective Sergeant James F. Murphy is on vacation, would not say yesterday if he had any new leads. He merely likened the police to bloodhounds, who "never stop until they find their prey," and spoke mysteriously of employing "the secret methods that police sometimes...
Louisiana's State Senator Dudley J. Le-Blanc is a stem-winding salesman who knows every razzle-dazzle switch in the pitchman's trade. By resorting to most of them during the past six months, he has managed each month to sell more than 2,000,000 bottles of a patent medicine called Hadacol (TIME, June 19). A spectacular, three-dimensional display in New York's Grand Central Station and sensational advertising gimmicks in other big cities proclaim the "merits" of the mixture, which consists of B vitamins, honey, iron, phosphorous and calcium, all shaken...