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After letting him soak in the tub overnight, the girls smuggle the corpse to the school grounds, dump it in the slimy swimming pool. So far, things have merely been brutal. Now Clouzot lights the spirit lamps of the supernatural. When the corpse doesn't float to the surface of the water, the girls drain the pool. There is no dead man at the bottom. Next, a tailor delivers Paul's freshly cleaned and pressed suit to the school. It is the same one he was drowned in. A class photograph is taken; when the picture is developed...
...With practically a lifetime as a chronic alcoholic, and drinking enough beer and whiskey to float a boat, I do not now care for the stuff...
Last week Wall Street was baking a pie much suited to Funston's taste; it was getting ready to float the first public stock issue of the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, Nov. 14). To Funston, this was a "landmark in the history of the ownership" of American business. To brokers, it was the biggest stock pie they had ever seen ($400 million). And everyone seemed to want to buy a bite. Orders flooded in by mail and phone; thousands of people who had never ventured inside a broker's office got ready to shell out their savings...
Gold-Plated Group. To float the new issue, the Ford Foundation, which will get the proceeds, chose a collection of gold-plated co-managers to head the biggest syndicate ever formed in Wall Street. The names sounded like a roll call of the financial world's leaders...
Through Saigon's streets rolled a float depicting a swinish Emperor Bao Dai swilling cognac with one hand, clutching a nude blonde with the other, while an overbearing French rascal stuffed the royal pockets with gold. The question before the people in South Viet Nam's first free national election was in effect a choice between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as their head of state or Bao Dai, their absentee playboy sovereign...