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...country was the country of the . . . 'petit bourgeois' spirit. . . . The arrival of the Americans, their methods, their supplies, helped considerably to upset their [Frenchmen's] ideas. They got into the habit of counting in billions...
...prospects of getting together with all other anti-Axis Frenchmen (including General de Gaulle) Geneneral Henri Giraud said this week: "Everything will be satisfactorily arranged, and we shall all be united against Vichyism and fight the Nazis." This was either a hint or a hope...
...small, dark, shiny-haired Cole Albert Porter shares top rank for musicomedy tunes with Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers. Behind Porter lie 17 Broadway shows, including such hits as Fifty Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Leave It to Me, Du Barry Was a Lady, Panama Hattie...
...Georges Simenon, last heard from in Occupied France, has to his credit the staggering total of approximately 300 novels. Most of them reflect his nonchalant ability to record in short, spare sentences the everyday life of Frenchmen of every class and type. Built up out of thousands of small incidents, Simenon's novels never fail to show a "customary air of slow-motion absent-mindedness." But they were written-usually on his canal boat Ostrogoth)-at rates varying from four days to one month per novel. Says Simenon: "I get up at half-past five; go on deck; start...
...Power. There was perhaps no more unlikely place to look for a Man of 1942 than in prostrate France. Yet two Frenchmen, both of whom the U.S. disliked and distrusted, rose to the top of a soiled political heap. One of them was Pierre Laval, who rose to the honor of a meeting with Hitler to which the tragicomic Benito Mussolini was not invited. If Hitler wins, Pierre Laval may yet be a successful man, Jean François Darlan's deal with General Eisenhower might have profited him eventually, but his award was an assassin's bullet...