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ALMOST everyone who has read "The Three Musketeers" has also read the wholly admirable, if somewhat less thrilling, sequel "Twenty Years After." And not a few people who have done so have wondered what D' Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis were up to in the meantime. Two Frenchmen, acting with the approval of the Dumas heirs, and claiming to be possessed of manuscripts which were missing at the time that Dumas wrote, have supplied the two volumes which complete the historical chain...
Over all these flighty, inconsequential doings Excommunicator Cardinal Dubois brooded with troubled dignity last week. He is a prelate in high favor with the rich Anglo-U. S. Catholics of Paris, and he won the general gratitude of Frenchmen during the War by tireless organizing of efficient charities. As a matter of personal taste and sympathy Cardinal Dubois is known to have a penchant for the Royalists, among whom he has numerous close friends. As Cardinal and Archbishop, however, his duty was clear, last week, and he obeyed the Pope's orders to excommunicate with promptness and despatch...
...went on playing, limping. "Not that will aid a lot" punned the crowd, but critics noted that J. Seligson's game had slumped before his ankle, applauded Aydelotte as he went on to win the fifth set and the U. S. indoor tennis title. This year no Frenchmen were entered...
...official hammer blow delivered by an Aero Club representative upon a wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...
...French culture, when he saw the cup about to be dashed from his lips by blond Teutons to whom dusky, petite France was a morsel, not an inspiration. Nearer tramped the Conquerors. An impromptu French defense, mobilized in taxicabs seemed sure to crumble. Frightened, scared to the marrow, Frenchmen proceeded to withdraw their capital from Paris to Bordeaux. Automatically the Diplomatic Corps would follow the Government. Suddenly it was discovered that the U. S. Ambassador alone proposed to remain behind...