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Plangomeur was built by a buccaneer named La Hourie. Of all the pirate's heirs, only two women are left: fat, half-mad old Lucie La Hourie and her daughter-in-law Françoise...
Lucie's husband ("descended from the corsair just as you descend a long staircase when you slip-on his backside") died years ago. And Luc La Hourie, her only son, was reported lost at sea with a Breton fishing trawler just three months after he married Françoise...
...Iraq, the concessions are held by the Iraq Petroleum Co., which is owned by Anglo-Iranian Oil (23¾%); the British-controlled Royal Dutch-Shell (23¾%); Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum, through their jointly owned Near East Development Corp. (23¾%); the French Government through its Compagnie Française des Petroles (23¾%). The only individual is a mysterious Armenian financier, Calouste S. Gulbenkian, whose 5% gives him a distant claim to the title of the "world's richest...
Divorced. Lord Ashley, 46, heir to the Earldom of Shaftesbury; by his second Lady,* the former Mile. Françoise Soulier, 36; after ten years of marriage, two children; in London...
German P.W. camp to help print the underground paper Lettres Françaises in a Montmartre cellar. He is the first nonacademic artist ever to win the coveted Prix National de Peinture, and also one of the most articulate members of the twelve. Says...