Word: gabrielic
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...started so young," Phil says. For them he blows the old tunes-That's A Plenty, Milneburg Joys, High Society, Tin Roof Blues. For the departed jazzmen whose music he is reviving, he has a special thought: "I keep thinking of that good band up there with Gabriel. Of course Gabriel's the greatest-Bix is probably playing second horn up there-it must be a wonderful band...
Point System. In London, Dr. Gabriel Mouchot, a Frenchman writing in the British Medical World, advised Britons to concentrate on love, urged that "a ministry of matrimony be set up immediately and everybody given a marriage coupon...
...Gabriel got into trouble. As president of the council which ran the Louvre, Frenchmen said, he had kowtowed to Pétain and the Nazis. His friends said that, if so, it was for the sake of art. But the taint of Vichy was on him, and after the war he was fired from the museum council...
French Pride. Old and embittered, Gabriel Cognacq was too proud to defend himself. His revenge, before he died last year, was to rewrite his will, cutting off the Louvre without a single painting, and stipulating that the Cognacq collection be sold at public auction...
...zannes, Renoirs and Van Goghs went by. At any point, under French law, the Louvre men could have stood up, cited a financial act of 1926, and bought any painting by simply matching the final bid. But the Louvre had just as much pride as old Gabriel Cognacq. They never so much as raised a pencil...