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...twelve months of festivities commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Nicot's weed in France. As troubadours sang the glories of smoking to an audience of 800, the organizers of the meeting proudly an nounced the creation of a new chivalrous order of tobacco lovers - "The Compan ions of Jean Nicot," whose members will be entitled to wear a lapel ribbon just like chevaliers of the Legion of Honor...
...Englishman with a godlike face and a deformed foot registered at a Belgian inn, and, '"as soon as he reached his room . . . fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron to send home...
...best Axis tradition, Spain also posted a death list of names prominent in pre-Franco Spain. Ubiquitous, little Luis Companýs, Catalan journalist, lawyer, patriot, who was acclaimed President of Catalonia in 1936, was discovered in Nantes by the Gestapo, garroted in Spain on orders from Franco...
...Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt were among those who came back with us and we found them very delightful compan ions...
...that faraway, forgotten winter, had laid his hand upon her eyes. She could sense, perhaps, a certain graciousness, a certain ironic but charming delicacy in the fate which permitted Helen Keller who had been deaf and blind almost since her birth to read, last week, the story of a compan- ion pioneer, a man who, like herself, had moved quickly through a dangerous dark...