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...Paris, a ticket held by Alex Dupont won a 1,000,000-franc prize in the national lottery drawing. But M. Dupont had died, few weeks before. After a long and futile search for the ticket, his widow decided that it must be in the pocket of the white duck suit her husband was buried in. She got permission, exhumed the body, found the ticket, cashed...
...Terrible Parents, whose plot involves sons cuckolding their fathers and other incest. When Cocteau offered free tickets to school children, the Paris Municipal Council ordered the theatre's lease canceled, thus closing the show. Cocteau, who calls himself "John the Bird-catcher," at once slapped a five-million-franc damage suit on the city of Paris, alleging his play has "great artistic merit" and insisting that it was left "to the discretion of the teachers to choose the pupils most worthy to profit by the offer of free tickets...
...classrooms and dormitories (see cut). There 4,000 men, 1,000 women, more than there are at Oxford, study Chinese Problems, Military Science, Guerrilla Warfare, listen to lectures on "The policy of the British Government toward Czecho-Slovakia," "The effect of Britain's financial policy on the French franc...
...thought it was a good sign that there were 560,000,000 more francs in French savings banks during November 1938, than November 1937. In 1936 the Government had to borrow 30,000,000,000 francs to meet its deficit, in 1937, 40,000,000,000. This year M. Reynaud said he would get by with only a 35,000,000,000 franc loan. The Finance Minister summed up optimistically. "We are entering upon an era of rehabilitation of the public finances...
There was no doubt but that the Government had won. That it had been expected to do so by the financial and commercial interests was significant. On the morning of the general strike, the franc, which had been depressed, bobbed up confidently in foreign exchange. This was followed by a mild boom on the Bourse...