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...Mouse. In Paris a cold wind blew all week. Bristly Benoit Frachon, working away in his cold office, amid the smoke and grit from the Gare de 1'Est, would have dearly loved to go fishing in the sun at one of his favorite Riviera vacation spots. But Frachon could not get away. As Communist boss of the Confederation General du Travail, he was directing one of the most massive and delicate operations in French labor history. His problem was to maneuver the C.G.T.'s six million members so as to take maximum political advantage of the bitter discontent arising...
...Personally, I reject Communism ... I am convinced that democracy is a better society than dictatorship can build and that the su est way to destroy dictatorship abroad is to establish democracy at home; but it must be a democracy that preserves political liberty and uses it to establish equality and fraternity...
...Mirror called "a pale beige wool dress, with a deeper-than-usual neckline and longer-than-usual skirt." How had she found things? Said she: "A great many things are gone, including a most wonderful wine cellar. Not a bottle remains." But she kept her chin up. "C'est la guerre," said Mrs. Williams...
...agreed that if Lewis and the union post bond for their fines and file their appeals by tomorrow at 3 PM (EST), they won't have to pay them until their appeal is decided. In normal course the case would go to the U.S. circuit Court of Appeals here, but federal lawyers have said they would ask that it go straight to the Supreme Court instead
...born in a roulotte (trailer) and only recently has succumbed to houses. As a boy he played gypsy music on the guitar and violin. When he was 19, he heard a record of Louis Armstrong's Dallas Blues. Said he: "The rest of the orchestra-c'est mauvais, but Louis-il est formidable!" After listening to records by Armstrong, the Duke and Tommy Dorsey, he got together in 1935 with a hot fiddler named Stephane Grapelly, organized the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (three guitars, a violin and bass). Their records of U.S. jazz classics (Dinah...