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Since then the Pathé producer-exhibitor network has gone successively through bankruptcy, reorganization, Nazi occupation, and the purge of collaborators. The Bank of France's Ferdinand Liffran is titular boss, has the help of a potent cross-section of French big business (steel, oils, insurance, cognac and utilities...
Cavendish Welles Cannon is one of the State Department's ablest, most diligent desk diplomats. A U.S. newsman once remarked that Cannon had the worried manner of a village postmaster who had mislaid the day's mail. Cannon kept insisting, in his almost inaudible voice, that the conference...
By & large, hotel and resort food across Canada competes for dullness with U.S. blueplates and U.S. airline meals. But off the main line, the diligent traveler can find palate-tempters. In little French Canadian villages there is the traditional thick soupe aux pois to which the habitants attribute their virility...
The man after whom the famed university was named was born of good but humble stock in Boston. A diligent lad, he soon had amassed a fortune in India by selling while oxford cloth to a firm of New York merchandisers headed by the brothers Brooks.
The Story. On the high reaches of the marble cliffs that separate the towns on the Marina River from rural Campagna live two brothers who have abandoned worldly affairs to study plants and words (nature and man). Life with these quiet, diligent and lawful men is deeply satisfying-until the...