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...Gaston Henry-Haye, 54, is a sleek, well-nourished little diplomat who used to represent Vichyfrance in Washington. Fifteen months ago, when Vichy broke off relations with the U.S., M. Henry-Haye was tenderly interned (along with his pedigreed Dalmatian and his solicitous staff) in a $24-a-day suite at swank, luxurious Hotel Hershey, in Pennsylvania's pleasant Lebanon valley...
...scramble for the gubernatorial chair of John Bricker, Ohio Republicans last week forgot to keep up appearances. The Alphonse-&-Gaston tradition of Party unity, which has won the Governorship for Republicans in the last three elections, had come apart at the seams...
...although Nelson Eddy never was too appealing as an actor, he can roll that bartone of his. Claude Rains, of "Casablanca" fame, portrays the third violinist, and incidentally, the masked phantom. Eddy and the gondrame officer, Edward Barrier, put on a rather amusing and seemingly original Alphonse and Gaston performance at the mere presence of the budding opera star, Susanna Foster...
Before enlisting, the 52-year-old commandant, who makes his home in Boston, was a partner in the law firm of Gaston, Snow, Hunt, Rice, and Boyd, and held-several insurance executive posts. Born in Paris, Colonel Howard attended Groton School, came to Harvard, and while he was finishing Law School, the war broke out. As a member of the Harvard Regiment, he was commissioned a captain in the Infantry and sent to France in a machine-gun outfit. The Army issued him his discharge papers in February...
...burning question is: Who will own the Government's $14 billion share in the U.S. war plant after peace comes? Private industry now operates almost all of it. Thus far the Government and industry have put on an Alphonse & Gaston act: in speech after speech Jesse Jones has begged businessmen to tell him what they would like to have him do with the plants his RFC owns; just as emphatically, private industry has asked for a statement of Government policy -any policy-so that its postwar planning can begin to make sense. Jesse Jones does not want to tell...