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Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney, deputy Mediterranean Theater commander, awarded championship wristwatches to nine Americans (six of them Negroes), five Frenchmen, two Britons...
Last week Americans in Paris were imitating frugal Frenchmen who roll their own, getting the makings from old butts. Three butts make a full-sized smoke. A man with only two butts has to adopt another makeshift. He borrows a third from a friend, rolls his cigaret, smokes it, gives the butt back for further...
...lodrome d'Hiver, Paris' dusty version of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 50,000 Frenchmen welcomed him. While pretty girls collected funds, tossed bouquets of red carnations at the guest of honor, the big meeting sang La Marseillaise (six times), the Internationale (four times). The comrades listened to political speeches by Acting Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who sweated profusely, and ex-Party Secretary Marcel Cachin, who declaimed: "Thorez, like Lenin, is always ahead of the people." Then Thorez walked into the spotlight. He began softly, ended thunderously. His speech was organized around four catch phrases which constituted...
Marcel Petiot, Paris' super-sadistic killer who murdered, diced and cremated some 50 bodies during the Nazi occupation, tried to wriggle out of jail last week with a new twist. Charged with murdering Frenchmen for the Gestapo, Petiot claimed the reverse was true, boasted: "I belonged to the Fly-Tox* resistance group...
...Frenchmen called it Le New York, Americans the Paris Herald. It was as much a Parisian fixture as the Café de la Paix, as American as the Toonerville Trolley. Founded in 1887 by James Gordon Bennett, the younger, the New York Herald Tribune, European edition, was essentially a small-town paper. It carefully avoided controversies, scrupulously reported "personals" about the rich and famous...