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...Morvillars, six miles from the Swiss border. Near by were Chief of Government Pierre Laval and the head of the Vichy Militia, Joseph Darnand. At last report, Petain and Laval were in Germany. The whereabouts of labor chief Marcel Deat and fascist leader Jacques Doriot were not reported. But Fernand Bouisson, president of the Vichy Chamber of Deputies, had been caught by the Maquis four miles from St. Raphael, was being held for Allied justice...
...Peirce, grey-bearded, booming impressionist painter (TIME, May 29), journeyed from Bangor, Me. to Manhat tan to receive his $2,500 first prize in Pepsi-Cola's Portrait of America painting contest, first business-sponsored art competition to be judged by prominent artists and esthetes (including Rockwell Kent, Fernand Leger, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh, Max Weber). Peirce's prizewinner: a radiant Maine Swimming Hole. Peirce's comment: "I've already spent the money. ... I like Pepsi-Cola with rum in it.... Now maybe I'll even drink some straight...
Communist Fernand Grenier, youngish (42) ex-clerk, ex-Deputy, now the French Committee's Commissioner for Air, spoke up against political purging. Said he: men should be judged not by past actions but by present performances. Communist Grenier and his comrades had good reason to advocate this policy. Not long ago he said: "In the prewar and early war period many of us were Communists first, Frenchmen second. Now we are Frenchmen first, Communists second...
...Broadened the National Committee's base and upped its membership to 21 by including Communists Fernand Grenier and Francois Billoux, Moderate Paul Giaccobi...
...Hope. In his travels (he still requires all Pepsodent executives to spend at least one-third of their time in the field), Chuck Luckman sold the men who sell the product. His latest projects are more esoteric: to make druggists love Pepsodent he has 1) engaged Industrial Designer Raymond Fernand Loewy to work out blueprints for ideal drugstore layouts; 2) asked the American Medical Association to study cooperation between doctors and prescription departments-though Pepsodent makes no Pharmaceuticals...