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...about $60 a month, plus room and board and social security benefits, a housewife can hire an inexperienced Spanish girl who speaks no French at all. This language barrier is playing hob with Parisian social life. Many a telephoned invitation gets no farther than "Madame no está. No se. Tarde, tarde." CLICK. And one Spanish maid, after long employment had given her confidence, approached her mistress and asked her why on several occasions she had been ordered to put the family cat in the icebox. It is easy to see why the cat was cold. Gato is Spanish...
...Bravo! C'est magnifique!" cheered Conductor Pierre Monteux, 88, but it was not for a flawless interpretation of Beethoven's Ninth. In Britain to conduct the London Symphony, the former leader of the San Francisco Symphony took time out to realize a boyhood dream-donning a dandy fireman's hat and watching a ding-dong drill put on by the London Fire Brigade. The maestro loves to boast: "In my home town, Hancock, Maine, I built them a depot and bought an engine, and the population is only 400, so I guess I'm chief...
Hitting the Bank. If cash was the desperate goal of the S.A.O.. two big armed robberies in quick succession fitted neatly into the pattern of violence. Six men broke into the offices of the Société Générale Commerciale de 1'Est on Paris' Quai Anatole-France, forced the president to open the safe, and made off with $80,000 in gold and currency. In Beaune, 170 miles southeast of Paris, thieves looted the safe-deposit boxes of a local bank, getting away with an estimated $2,000,000 in cash...
...mortgage money, Walter and Modern Homes carefully, developed lines of credit that enabled them to do their own financing. An affable, smooth-talking Floridian who is a wealthy man at 40, Walter carefully built up his company until it now has 150 branch offices and is the second larg est homebuilder (after National Homes Corp.), with sales last year of $30 million and earnings of $1,800,000. Last week Walter took over as chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago's Celotex Corp. (a maker of building materials that could go into his homes), which he controls with...
...Britain 200 years ago, the thirst for the picturesque was almost as powerful as the thirst for port. Since Queen Elizabeth's day, there had been a lively interest in the "luxuriance of fancy" and "fayr-est workmanshippe" that assumed the Orient to be one vast curio shop. Toward the end of the 18th century, travelers began to bring back reports of more solid architectural wonders to dazzle the imaginations of stay-at-home Britons, and artists started to make sketching trips to China and India to satisfy this curiosity about all things Eastern. Most important of these...