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...Orsay. With a glass of champagne and a kiss on each cheek from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, they would be formally made knights of the Légion d'Honneur. For both Geneviève Tabouis, famed political columnist of France-Libre (circ. 115,000) and Janet Flanner, famed "Genêt" of the New Yorker, the kudos was overdue...
This week on Founder's Day Flanner House will dedicate a new health center. It will also record what it has done to meet the 20th-century problems of housing, health, jobs, poverty, education, dependency. The center operates a cannery, a co-op store, a job-placement service. It trains for jobs and homemaking. Says softspoken, polished Cleo Blackburn, Planner House director and former Tuskegee teacher, "When we work at these problems, race relations take care of themselves...
Formalized religion is not part of Flanner House, but religious groups share its work. Before the city's Community Fund took over financing, the Disciples of Christ contributed time and money. The United Christian Missionary Society helped. The American Friends gave $8,000 this year, hope in 1946 to give $26,000. Said one of them: "If Friends live up to their principles there is no line of race to them. All men are brothers. Planner House offers a valuable opportunity for Friends to demonstrate the thing they claim to believe." To which Dr. Robert M. Hopkins, president...
...JANET FLANNER The New Yorker New York City...
...Writer Janet Flanner, who as "Genet" filed some of the best European dispatches of the last decade, has no need to be overmodest...