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Last week, as French schools opened for the fall term, only 22 Ifs pupils showed up. The rest were out on a parent-instigated strike. Petitions were sent to the District Inspector of Education in Caen and even to the Ministry in Paris. Farmers and aproned mothers paraded the streets with placards denouncing the headmaster as a "solid...
Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran cisco Examiner, who likes nothing better than balancing on the knife edge of propriety, last week passed along to readers a choice item about Cinemactress Ava Gardner. One night, while gambling at Lake Tahoe, said Caen, Ava announced: " 'I want to roll the dice for $1,000.' She picked up the dice and began rubbing them up and down the front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted...
...Caen's column was hardly on the streets when readers began to phone the paper. They pointed out that an almost identical story about an unnamed woman had appeared in the August issue of Reader's Digest. Two days later Caen printed a brief apology for the slip, and sent the magazine a check for $20 to cover reprint rights on the story-the same sum Caen has often been paid for an item by the Digest...
Stalin's Architects. What Bradley and Patton did in Normandy and after, says Wilmot, was made possible by Montgomery's canny generalship around Caen that enabled the Americans to break out. Only occasionally is Monty chided for caution; in the end his virtues completely swamp his faults. Bradley gets sterner treatment. Heavy U.S. casualties during the Normandy landings, says Wilmot, were largely the result of Bradley's refusal to use British-invented armored weapons and machines that helped cut British losses to a minimum. Bradley declined to use the British "Crabs" (flailing tanks that could smash...
...chef at Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland hotel asked several gourmets to name their favorite after-theater supper dishes. Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller said he favored hot crabmeat in cream. Artist Salvador Dali liked tripe a la mode de Caen. Author Michael (The Green Hat) Arlen fancied hot Virginia ham topped with poached fresh peaches, the whole bathed in Madeira sauce...