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...Portlandish gesture, Henri Prince, representing New York's Mayor Walker, proclaimed adoption of the eight-year-old cornetist in the same band. Then all the mayors sang "Sweet Adeline." A portentous thunderstorm marked the night arrival of the mayors in Paris. They were met by Count jean de Castel-lane, president of the Municipal Council, who invited them to luncheon next day at the Hotel de Ville "in behalf of the Town of Paris." Quipped irrepressible Mayor Baker: "If Paris is just a town, I want to see one of your cities." Next morning the mayors, grumbling among themselves...
...onetime (1899-1905) vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, son of the late Henry Baldwin Hyde, Equitable's founder and onetime president; and Countess Ella Matuschka (nee Walker) of Detroit; in Varsailles, France. Witnesses: Andre Tardieu, onetime (see p. 17) Prime Minister of France, President Jean de Castel-lane of the Paris Municipal Council, .Counselor Norman Armour of the U. S. Embassy...
...Pope last week was examining some plans for modernizing the papal summer palace at Castel Gandolfo in the hills back of Rome. Alterations will cost several million lire, much more than he now has to spend on such work. Uncomfortable though he is during Rome's summer, he prefers personal inconvenience to diverting sums from his church projects. With such thoughts he casually remarked: "Our successor will look after the execution of this plan...
...retainers thought that he meant he would die before Castel Gandolfo could be repaired and babbled a dismal malinterpretation. Papal well-wishers, mindful of his indisposition this summer, again flooded him with inquisitive telegrams...
...Castel-Benac was an expert in civic corruption. Perhaps his most nefarious enterprise was the erection of a public lavatory just opposite a café. When the proprietor objected to this juxtaposition, M. Castel-Benac charged him a fat sum for haulage, then moved his lavatory down the street and established it opposite another café. But M. Castel-Benac made one tactical mistake. Having determined to rid his office of the gibbering and useless M. Topaze, he procured a farewell gift for that pedagog by gentle blackmail. It was the particular gleam which M. Topaze had long been following...