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...wars. Through the twilight of fact and legend that surrounded them and their international arms deals, they were known to Sunday supplement readers as merchants of death. The least known, and perhaps the last, of their brotherhood was a man who looked like a tall, friendly duck. He was François de Wendel...
...name to De Wendel. The De Wendels always had enough Von Wendels on the other side of the Rhine to keep their properties in the family. Christian de Wendel's grandson, Ignace, forged arms for both sides during the French Revolution. Ignace's son, the first François de Wendel, supplied weapons for Napoleon...
...Witch. U.S. television screens also swarm with puppets, and U.S. moppets also react enthusiastically. Probably the most popular U.S. marionette is NBC's Howdy Doody,* a drawling, cow-country character who cavorts through a half-hour show with M.C. Bob Smith. In Chicago, Burr Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran and Ollie is not only the best children's show but has been called the best show of any kind on Midwestern TV. Puppets Kukla and Ollie are, respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human to appear...
Each weekday morning Louis St. Laurent was up at 8:30. After breakfast, Chauffeur Franços Dion, who has been with the family 26 years, drove him to his old law office in the Price Building, where his two lawyer sons carry on the family practice. He chatted with them about their cases, talked with the local politicians who dropped in, kept in touch with Ottawa by phone. He turned aside political questions. When a reporter asked him if he thought that he would be reelected, he cracked: "I think people are tired of extraordinary men and of extraordinary...
...France, Télévision Française transmits from atop the Eiffel Tower, and is housed in probably the most modern and best designed TV studio in the world. But French TV has been handicapped by one of those illogical conflicts common among the logical French. Manufacturers have refused to go into full-scale production until the government increases its program budget ($11,000 for all of 1948). The government refuses to telecast more programs until more people have sets. Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian...