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...king. But the strange thing about the black market is that it is not only a phenomenon of shortage but has also become an ingrained, accepted, and sometimes welcome way of doing things. Rationing, with the resulting fair distribution and low prices, cannot work in France. The average Frenchman remains too individualistic and self-centered to appreciate that way of doing things...
Look round, the Frenchman loves its blaze...
...outside visitor, worried Belgium still looked like a land of plenty. Said one lean Frenchman, sitting behind a juicy steak in a Brussels restaurant: "Belgium may not be poetic, but you eat well here...
...Stanford's Albert Léon Guérard, 65, professor of literature, transplanted Frenchman, prolific critic and author (Art for Art's Sake, Preface to World Literature, France, a Short History, some 14 other volumes); and Thomas Addis, 64, Scotland-born authority on Bright's disease and other kidney ailments, winner of the Scottish Cullen Prize "for the greatest benefit done to practical medicine in the past four years...
...permanent repertoire of the Marx Brothers, were few. Groucho's gags, when he grabbed the opportunity to pull one, were in character. When asked by a seductive Parisienne: "Won't you join me?" he answers, "Why are you coming apart?" The love angle between Charles Drake, a strapping young Frenchman with uncombed hair and Lois Collier, and ex-horse opera heroine, is happily , hardly enough to keep balcony couples interested...