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When Mr. Willkie was nominated, newsmen dashed to the vicinity of the Willkie apartment at 1010 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, to find out what the neighbors thought, and what the neighbors looked like. Burbled Mrs. Benjamin Friedland: "He is a perfectly marvelous man." Said Tommy Rolla, who delivers groceries to the Willkie door: "Never met him. Mrs. Willkie? Okay...
...water, le wild West and le jazz hot. With the hope of broadening that conception, and with the blessing of the French foreign ministry which io all for Franco-American good will, two cheerful French radiomen showed up in the U. S. last summer. They were Jacques F. Friedland, 41, president of a French radio production agency, Agence Radiophonique Universelle, and Didier van Ackere, 29, Paris correspondent of Columbia Broadcasting System. They came to make 30 half-hour recordings of U. S. sounds, songs, scenes. These recordings they planned to take back for broadcast over the 17 stations...
Last week, after much traveling and much help from CBS, Messieurs Friedland and van Ackere finished their series. Their recordings, packed with fascinating fictions as well as facts, pictured the U. S. just about as their compatriots at home picture it. The editors explained that too many variations from preconceptions would merely make their compatriots lose faith in the programs. In accordance with the French idea of the U. S., everything moves at a dizzy pace. Efficiency, machinery, wealth are stressed...
...have pressed the U. S. on these 30 wax surfaces are a perfect team: van Ackere, short, excitable and voluble; Friedland as tall, quiet and phlegmatic as a Frenchman can be. Friedland is a producer and businessman who speaks no English whatsoever; van Ackere is a showman and artist who speaks English with no accent whatsoever. Together they work fast and smoothly. M. Friedland's most cherished souvenir of U. S. culture, which he says he will show to every one in France, is a folder of matches from a New York hotel. The matches are fully-dressed cardboard...
...brilliance and bravery in the service of Napoleon raised him to be Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskowa and Marshal of France, ends before the guns of a firing squad in Luxembourg Gardens on Dec. 7, 1815. Called by Napoleon "the bravest of the brave," the hero of Elchingen, Friedland, Redinha, Borodino and the retreat from Moscow had sworn allegiance to Bourbon Louis XVIII on the Empire's fall, set out to bring Napoleon to Paris in an iron cage when he returned from Elba, joined him instead with his whole army. After Waterloo Marshal Ney was condemned...