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...broadening that conception, and with the blessing of the French foreign ministry which io all for Franco-American good will, two cheerful French radiomen showed up in the U. S. last summer. They were Jacques F. Friedland, 41, president of a French radio production agency, Agence Radiophonique Universelle, and Didier van Ackere, 29, Paris correspondent of Columbia Broadcasting System. They came to make 30 half-hour recordings of U. S. sounds, songs, scenes. These recordings they planned to take back for broadcast over the 17 stations of the Government-owned French National Radio Network...
...Charles Didier spent a pleasant weekend at Diamond Lake, Ill., swimming, sunning themselves, showing off their three-month-old baby to the neighbors. Then they started for home with little Robert, wrapped snugly in his blankets, tucked in a corner of the back seat. Suddenly the car jolted, the baby fell off the seat. When Mr. Didier stopped the car and picked him up, no wail or whimper came from the tightly wrapped flannel bundle. "He's suffocated, he's dead," cried the father...
...cried, suckled, belched as lustily as ever. Little Robert's accident last week furnished additional proof for the heartening facts that 1) babies are tough, 2) superficial signs of death do not always mean what they say. If all fathers were as quick-witted as Charles Didier and rushed their "smothered" babies to a physician, the rate of infant mortality would be lower. A baby's heart beat is so shallow, so rapid, that often only an expert with a stethoscope can detect it. And in the case of shock, the beat is intermittent, almost inaudible. Even blueness...
...Also challenged last week was French Tennist Jean Borotra by Paris Sportswriter Didier Poulain, as the culmination of an exchange of insults started by Sportswriter Poulain's insistence that Borotra had let France down by refusing to play singles in the French Davis Cup matches...
What the Morning Telegraph is to race-track addicts in New York, L'Auto is to sports enthusiasts in Paris. Last fortnight, L'Auto published a letter by Didier Poulain, its tennis expert, denouncing famed Jean Borotra for "letting France down" by not playing singles on France's Davis Cup team. Jean Borotra promptly replied with a letter denouncing Sportswriter Poulain. Last week, the Borotra v. Poulain controversy became a subject of international excitement when Sportswriter Poulain sent Tennist Borotra a challenge to a duel which Tennist Borotra, at Wimbledon for the 55th All-England Championships, angrily...