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...professor of French Literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand...
...professor of French Literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, but has spent many months at Harvard in the past. He is best known for his recent book. "Benjamin Franklin, the Apostle of Modern Times," a biography of the great Philadelphian...
...Legend of Bibendum's conception: Some one saw a pile of tires heaped up in the Michelin factory at Clermont-Ferrand, France, and fancied a grotesque human resemblance. A cartoonist named O'Gallot was commissioned to make the pile of tires into a trademark. Soon along the highways of the world appeared the inflated figure of Bibendum, so called because he originally appeared holding a goblet of wine, and with the slogan Nunc est Bibendum ("The time has come to drink"). The blurbal application of the slogan was that Michelin tires "drank up" the shocks and bumps of travel...
...Clermont-Ferrand, France, a fox terrier dragged a brown paper bag to a policeman's feet. Stooping to pat the dog, the policeman looked into the bag, found a newborn baby...
...Author. Bernard Faÿ, 36, unmarried, was born in Paris, has taken all possible French professorial degrees, is Professor in the Faculty of Letters in the University of Clermont-Ferrand. During the War he served as captain, won the Croix de Guerre, Médaille de Léopold II. Since 1921 he has spent alternate years in France and the U. S. lecturing at Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State universities. Other Fa books: A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Since Victor Hugo: French Literature...