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Sirs: Being unable to find even a trace of glamorous Gertrude [Dirty Gertie of Bizerte] in Bizerte, we extended our quest across the coast of North Africa from the tip of Cape Bon to Casablanca. Our ceaseless searching was finally rewarded at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, headquarters of the French Foreign Legion (in which Ronald Colman fought so many ferocious battles), when we came upon an alluring Arabian astride a motorcycle, who claimed to be the identical girl about whom the celebrated song was written...
Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, for the moment a lonely bachelor veteran of seven marriages, put up for sale the complete furnishings (estimated value, over $100,000) of the 29-room house on his five-acre. $400,000 estate, Bon Repos, in New Rochelle, N.Y., announced he had not made up his mind whether he would sell the rest. Meanwhile he is making his home in the eight-room guest house...
...should be pleased to invite a crew of TIME'S truth-delvers and fact-finders to station themselves at vantage points throughout the Stork Club and observe with what regularity the bon vivants turn over their checks before removing the rubber bands from their wallets. And the same holds true at all of Gotham's popular watering places...
Basic Invasion. In Normandy, Canadian Lieut. Charlie Hudson encountered a French boy, said "Bon jour." Replied the French boy: "Got any gum, chum...
...their right the French troops won Poggibonsi (pronounced Poe-je-bon-see), junction of five important roads, out flanked the German defenders and battered toward Florence, 22 miles away...