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...Cried dapper ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, 66, who had been Pétain's predecessor: "I, like the rest of France, was fooled by the Marshal. ... He tried to destroy what remained of France's soul...
Their most important and spectacular campaign was against an estimated 30,000 enemy troops on Borneo. It was also their most successful. Under the Corps command of dapper, dashing Lieut. General Sir Leslie ("Holy Terror") Morshead, onetime schoolmaster and hero of the siege of Tobruk, the 7th Division had secured the vital Balikpapan area within three weeks of its invasion. Last week the 7th beat down bitter resistance to take another first-rate military prize: the Sambodja oil field, 28 miles northeast of Balikpapan and one of the three major producing areas of eastern Borneo...
...Dapper Dreamer Wright contends that his Non-Objective Museum will be the first ever built that is thoroughly suited to the display of pictures. Now, he says, "art will be seen as if through an open window, and of all places, in New York. It astounds...
Last week, Manhattan's tabloid Daily News supplied the name for him: dark, dapper Henry Lustig, millionaire operator of the plushy, well-stocked, high-priced Longchamps chain (twelve restaurants in New York). Said the News: Treasury agents are investigating Lustig for alleged income-tax evasions of $5 million in the boom period of 1942-44. The Treasury suspected that Restaurateur Lustig had failed to report large, systematic with drawals of cash, $1,000 at a time, from his various tills. This cash, said the News, had been placed in safe-deposit boxes...
...Congress Party's moderate, resourceful lawyer Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar. In the background hovered the little man in the dhoti, Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were the Moslem League's dapper, fractious President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset...