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...Paris, Furlaud would rarely report breaking news stories for NPR or the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), which also aired her pieces. Instead she mainly reported feature-type stories--a staple of NPR in what Furlaud calls its former "eccentric days...
...Furlaud's first stories was an interview with an author of a book about a red-light district of Paris. Furlaud taped the author describing the sights and highlights of the district as they drove through the neighborhood...
...piece disgusted some listeners enough to send letters refusing to ever contribute to NPR again--a source of pride for Furlaud...
...However, Furlaud had one favorite day to report for NPR: April Fools Day. She was a regular contributor to All Things Considered's April 1 feature of running an invented story. One year she suggested apiece about how Sadam Hussein's son was vacationing on Cape Cod, while on spring break from his New England boarding school--an idea rejected for even being over the top for an April Fool's story...
...Alice Furlaud moved back to the United States in 1997, after the Parisian government took control of the couple's apartment, and settled in the Cape Cod cottage that Alice's mother had bought in 1933 and where the couple had gotten engaged...