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...most Frenchmen, however, the most important single item in Suzanne's waybill was tough, pompadoured Marcel Cerdan, the idolized middleweight boxing champ who last June dropped his title to Jake LaMotta in Detroit. "Don't worry, darling," Marcel had told his wife in Casablanca over the phone from Orly Airport last week, "I'll get there and I'll bring back that title." As Marcel and his manager climbed aboard the plane, there was little doubt in French hearts that both prophecies would be borne...
...Allied hospitals, then she went to France as a war nurse, was wounded at Verdun, gassed at Valenciennes, and made 18 Atlantic crossings during the height of the submarine peril. When the war was over, she had won a permanent place in the hearts of Frenchmen. They called her "The Angel of France...
Like a kind of Gallic Colonel Blimp, Paris' conservative Le Figaro (circ. 390,000) takes French imperial prestige with deep seriousness. To awaken the same feeling in other Frenchmen, Le Figaro decided to dramatize what it considered the nation's deplorable indifference to the fact that the French colonial empire (73 million people) is now the world's largest. Le Figaro's correspondents polled 500 citizens, a cross section of the population, on French colonial geography. Last week the paper reported the gratifyingly horrendous results...
...from indignant readers began to. come in, denouncing the editors for taking a ruler to the French when they couldn't get things right themselves. By the time almost a hundred readers had caught a single error, Le Figaro's editors were ready to admit that 500 Frenchmen and 12 pollsters could be wrong...
Rumors swept the press that U.S. gunmen had pulled the job, but a French police spokesman said with wounded dignity: "There were no foreigners on this job, no Americans, no Italians, no nothing. This was a job conceived, planned and executed entirely by Frenchmen...