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...veteran of World War I (named after St. Anastasia, who had her tongue cut out for resisting the advances of Roman Emperor Valerian), Anastasie was revived by a French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, when World War II began. She presides over the crowded corridors of the Hotel Continental in the Rue de Castiglione, home of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux's Ministry of Information...
...French politics, a kind of national sport distinguished for its rabidity and subtlety, newspaper cartoonists carry weight. Two, at least, possess gifts equal to their importance: H. P. Gassier, contributor to the brilliant Leftist weekly Le Canard Enchaine, and J. Sennep, of such sheets as Paris-Soir (nicknamed, as the organ of the French sugar trust, Paris-Sucre...
Genial Banker Jones, at home on his Texas heath, wasted no time in laying this canard: "I have been introduced as a conservative. I am a liberal." Thereupon, taking his usual line that U. S. banks would have to loosen up "or else," he said: "We should all remember that it is the borrower who makes the mare go. He buys and hires and builds. He sometimes makes mistakes, but even so, he should still be encouraged...
...lamp") Bradna, chubby faced Parisian brunette, has been starred. In preparation for this great event, Paramount floated the innocent fiction that Olympe had never been kissed. Alleged reason: Olympe is 17 and her mother will not leave her alone with a man until she is 18. To this baseless canard, Olympe last week chirped an exception. In a film called College Holiday (TIME, Jan. 4, 1937) she had been kissed in a purely businesslike way by a juvenile named Louis Da Pron. About her private life, she was less explicit. "I am only 17," said she demurely, "and I have...
...oftener cited for their brains than for their beauty. The undergraduate magazine Pulse complained recently that "there hasn't been a beautiful woman on the Midway since Little Egypt reared her skirts in 1893." At this admission Northwestern University students guffawed. Aroused Chicagoans decided to nail the canard by finding and proclaiming Chicago's prettiest girl. Last week, after pondering many pictures from a photographer's files, the three judges assigned to the job picked an indubitable stunner, Joy Hawley. Too late they discovered that Miss Hawley's picture had slipped in by mistake, that...