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France was down with the worst case of flu since the disastrous pandemic that followed World War I, killing an estimated 100,000 Frenchmen. The flu wave last week threatened to invade Britain, where doctors nervously checked up on their drug supplies. It had infiltrated Italy, where Communist propagandists proved that even a sneeze is a weapon in the class war. Cried Red Unita: "A slight cold, easy to catch these days, may have fatal consequences for the underprivileged, who generally lack . . . the money to buy aspirin...
...ministry carried on without him, however, informing Frenchmen that, the minute they caught sight of a flu suspect, they ought to press a handy piece of gauze over mouth and nostrils. One eminent physician declared: "Consumption of alcohol is at least as efficient a preventive as any drug." Beneath public health notices declaring: "He who avoids flu performs a public service," France's barflies drank deep and gloriously in the full consciousness of civic virtue...
...Peru, Ind., 56-year-old Yale-man Porter has commuted for years between show business and the showiest international society. A riding accident broke both his legs in 1938, but, having gritted through 30 operations, he can now get around without a cane. Among his hit musicals: Fifty Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Jubilee, Red Hot and Blue. Having launched what may prove his biggest hit, he plans a new show for the same producers in the fall-but first he will motor on the Continent and cruise in the Mediterranean...
...Frenchmen last week were staring at the floor. A new law, aimed at bringing order and equity out of the chaos of French rentals, had just proclaimed that after Jan. 1 French floor space would be classified as "real," "useful" and "corrected." The law was drafted with clarity, system and thoroughness, qualities for which the French are famed. Also, the law was nuttier than an Alsatian fruit cake...
...East-McGill University. When the skating gentlemen from Montreal come down to Boston, they will bring real speed, real finesse, and the best teamwork that Harvard will see this year. Coach Chase has a lot of work to do if he expects a decent showing against the fancy Frenchmen from the north country...