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...Gaston E. Azcairiga '49--Elizabeth Humpley...
...Fred Allen, etc., into Beaucoup de Mtisique, an hour-long afternoon jive session, or Midnight in Paris, a two-hour nightly dance program. Unlike dull, politicky French radio, which suspended afternoon broadcasts four days a week to cut costs, AFN had become as staple a fare as red wine. Gaston Deferre, French Under Secretary of Information, asked formally that the U.S. Army keep the network going...
Back in the Rue St. Dominique, bewildered newsmen tried to find out whether De Gaulle, who had resigned twice before in the past three months, really meant it. His secretary, Gaston Palewski, said: "General de Gaulle ... has left his post, and this is irrevocable. He is retiring definitely from political life...
...meeting grew hot, hotter. At the side of the packed room, a man climbed on a chair, shouted that he represented the U.S. Government. He did. He was tall, husky Lawyer William Gaston, 47, onetime husband of Cinemactress Kay Francis, now U.S. conciliator for New England. He had a "magic formula." He would meet company and union representatives separately-at once...
Company spokesmen, after hearing Lawyer Gaston's formula, quickly decided that it was nothing but a union checkoff in lamb's clothing. They emerged snorting: "Completely unacceptable . . . that man was very fresh to us." (Two days later Gaston was removed from the Stamford assignment, another casualty among labor-management alchemists...