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Cinemactress Rita Hayworth finally arrived in Reno to divorce Aly Khan. Meanwhile, gambling 100,000-franc chips in Monte Carlo, with Cinemactress Gene Tierney at his side for luck and relaxation, Aly shrugged off comment. Said he: "I don't know anything about it. Nobody tells me anything...
Driver Fitch (with Relief Drivers Peter Collins and John Cutts, both Britons) took off from Monte Carlo itself in his Sunbeam-Talbot, spun over his prescribed route through Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, and up & over the Maritime Alps of France. Crossing the finish line without a single penalty, Fitch was one of the prime favorites for the million-franc prize money and the Prince Ranier III of Monaco Cup. But in the next test-a series of starts, stops and reverses over a 250-meter course-the Sunbeam-Talbot came a cropper. "There was a small knock...
...World War I; a commander of the Legion of Honor. Private Life: Married to Denise-Henriette Bloch. His only son Antoine, a parachutist, was killed in World War II; a daughter Lise is married to a silk dealer. Political Career: Headed French armament mission to London 1939. Returning to France after the 1940 collapse, he was denied all posts under Petain's anti-Semitic laws; escaped to North Africa in 1943, where he joined the Free French in Algiers. After the liberation of Paris, De Gaulle made him Public Works and Transportation Minister; later, French Commissioner for German Affairs...
...impossible for the government to continue its task . . ." In the stunned silence, the Premier stalked out. It was all very unusual, to quit before being thrown out. Next day Pinay announced: "I'll never go back to that bear cage again." The black-market rate of the franc, which had fallen from 480 to a low of 390 during Pinay's save-the-franc administration, began climbing, and reached 420 only two days after his downfall. That familiar word, devaluation, was heard again in a land where the cost of living has jumped 45% since...
Physically, France is sound-as sound as a dollar and sounder than the franc. Unlike Britain, France can feed herself, and well. With a fertile country, a smiling climate and 42 million intelligent and reasonably hard-working people, France should be able to earn her own fat living. French industrial output is running 13% ahead of the record year...