Word: genevi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petite, grey-haired women journalists had a date this week at Paris' Quai d'Orsay. With a glass of champagne and a kiss on each cheek from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, they would be formally made knights of the Légion d'Honneur. For both Geneviève Tabouis, famed political columnist of France-Libre (circ. 115,000) and Janet Flanner, famed "Genêt" of the New Yorker, the kudos was overdue...
Wrong Guesser. In 24 years of reporting, including stints for Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror, "Aunt Geneviève" has hung up a few scoops, and a record array of wrong guesses. Her daily routine includes interviews with diplomats every forenoon, and phone calls to "well-informed friends" in London and Geneva every evening. In her elegant Right Bank apartment, she has three telephone lines and a phone in every room...
Last week the Communist weekly Action kidded her in a comic strip about Geneviève Cambouis, Clairvoyante, who excused herself during an interview to rush to Moscow and thrust a microphone under Stalin's table...
Predestined. Geneviève was predestined for her job. She was born into a diplomatic family when "a little man named Loubet" was President of France's shaky third try at a Republic. Her uncle Jules Cambon ("the dominating influence in my life") was France's Ambassador to Washington, Madrid, Berlin. Her uncle, Paul Cambon, was France's famed Ambassador to London who signed the Entente Cordiale. She grew up amid discussions about anti-Semitism, anti-clericalism, anti-militarism, anti-Republicanism. She recalls, "as if it were yesterday," her parents saying: "Things have never been...
...seven years Geneviève Tabouis was both reporter and actor in France's disintegration. Her informal luncheons were famous. "There was scarcely a foreign minister visiting Paris who did not make a note in his memorandum book-Wednesday (or Saturday)-lunch at Madame Tabouis' house.' " Actors, poets, writers also came. Once the conversation was about Royalist Writer Léon Daudet's unforgettable nicknames for people he did not like. He called New Dealish Léon Blum "the Circumcized Hermaphrodite." A bewhiskered Rightist deputy was "our most Distinguished Burper." Foreign Minister Boncour...