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Salient titles: René de Chambrun's De La Lorraine à Washington; Laval, by Henri Torres, a French liberal lawyer who knew the No. 1 French Quisling intimately...
When Haverford asked René de Chambrun, son-in-law of France's No. 1 Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval, to address the student body Dr. Morley rejected Dr. Hotson's suggestion that he also invite British Novelist Somerset Maugham. And when Dr. Reitzel invited Eugene Houdry, president of France Forever and a supporter of General de Gaulle, Dr. Morley objected, and the speech was canceled...
...Morley last week explained that René de Chambrun was one of a series of speakers that also included British Novelist Phyllis Bentley "at the suggestion of Dr. Hotson." Furthermore, Dr. Morley said that Dr. Hotson asked for a raise soon after Dr. Morley arrived at Haverford last October, was refused, resigned last month. Dr. Reitzel, the president said, "informed me of his intention to resign" in October...
...Brousse, bomber-squadron commander in World War I, and his longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt (who helped to get him his appointment) and, of course, John...
Boudoir (by Jacques Deval, produced by Jacques Chambrun) told of a Manhat tan adventuress of the '80s whose assorted bitchery was finally ended by the strangling hands of an Egyptian jewel thief. The play had blackout dullness inconceivable from the author of the glinting comedy Tovarich...