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...Ayen in bedraggled St. Germain, France, stands a bright, pink, three-story schoolhouse. In its library are $25,000 worth of books. Its music room has an electric phonograph and a big collection of classical records. Its basement hums with lathes and its upper floors are alive with the clatter of typewriters and sewing machines. Last week the school awarded its first graduation, certificates-to WACs, for their proficiency in beauty culture...
...richest family in the country, one of the richest in the world. Otto Bemberg came from Germany in 1868. His son, Otto Sebastian, made big money in brewing, banking and real estate. Retiring to Paris, he directed his ever-growing Argentine affairs from an inconspicuous office on Boulevard St. Germain. When he died in Monte Carlo at 75, he left four sons to increase the family fortune. Two of them, Otto and Federico, stuck to the job. Argentine society boasts of its rock-bound exclusiveness, but the Bembergs married aristocratically. Accepted in Buenos Aires by the snooty Jockey Club...
Babe Didrikson, famed female track athlete of the '30s, popped back into the sports pages by winning a major golf tournament. Now 30, she trounced a 20-year-old college girl, Dorothy Germain, in the finals of the Women's Western Open, at Chicago. As usual, Babe's booming drives were seldom in the fairway, but her recoveries were so phenomenal that she had 14 one-putt greens in 31 holes...
...Paris, so ageless and radiant in the years of freedom, is that of a gnarled and brooding old lady under the Nazis. The city was in no mood for a facelifting last week, but it had started to get one. The Germans were tearing down buildings in St. Germain des Pres, St. Gervais, Le Marais, the Palais Royal and the Halles (central markets). Except St. Germain, all these quarters belong to the old inner Paris, walled and fortified at the end of the 12th Century by Philippe Auguste, the powerful king who conquered Normandy and pushed his authority past feudal...
...School; John J. Delaney Jr., Arlington, Arlington High School; Michael J. DeLeo, Everett, Everett Senior High School; Arthur J. Driscoll Jr., Buzzards Bay, Roxbury Latin School; Thaddeus J. Dziura, Lowell, Lowell High School; Charles M. Finbury, Haverhill, Public Latin School, Boston; Alexander Gerardo, Holyoke, Holyoke High School; Ronald O. Germain, Boston, Lawrence High School; Frederick E. Grimes, Swampscott, Swampscott High School; Frederick A. Hagar, Marshfield Hills Marshfield High School; Breed Hall North Pembroke, Pembroke High School; Frank T. Innes, Hyde Park, English High School, Boston...