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...nobody ever kills anyone he doesn't know." An American in Paris is a selection of the best of her New Yorker and Vanity Fair sketches. Each a mosaic of tidbits culled from hundreds of informants, each sleek with refined comedy, these reports and profiles are a valuable dossier on the very highest life of the past 20 years...
Prelude. The first (precise) half of Verdun is a Prelude and opens with a leisurely description of the Western Front and its strategy in 1915, done in a dispassionate tone between solemnity and irony. "The two High Commands had taken the field with a whole dossier of formulas guaranteed to be infallible by such experts as Napoleon or Moltke and perfected by generations of professors in the military art. All this printed accumulation of tactical genius, which ought to have ensured victory in three weeks, turned out to be no less productive of almost immediate defeat - though not car ried...
...dynasty was found shot with his young and tolerably beautiful mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera. All those within scrutiny were sworn to life secrecy by the Emperor Franz Joseph, who issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement to a beautiful friendship...
...help the Spanish Popular Front. Last week for the first time since the World War a high German Staff Officer, General Ludwig Beck, was welcomed in Paris, conferred with General Marie Gustave Gamelin of the French General Staff, reputedly shared with him the German Secret Service's dossier on what is actually happening in Russia. Cabled veteran Paris Correspondent John Elliott of the Herald Tribune: "Political circles here are convinced that . . . the visit to Paris of General Ludwig Beck . . . and the dramatic about face of the 72 Communist members of the Chamber . . . have a direct bearing on each other...
...average consistently higher than the normal expectancy, the results become significant. Thus, according to Dr. Rhine's mathematics, the odds against making an average of 7.5 hits per 25 tries through 40 runs of 25 each are ten-thousand-billion-billion-billion-billion to 1. In his complete dossier of 100,000 tries he has longer runs and higher averages than this, which would seem to rule out chance with devastating finality...