Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Pierre-Henri Teitgen, Minister of Justice, offered a fuller explanation: "Dewavrin used his 'caisse noire' [secret funds] to make clandestine deposits in France and abroad which he did not reveal to his successors; his accounts were incomplete and inexact to the tune of 40 million francs [$3,335]." But the Government (which had dealt with the Passy case secretly at Cabinet level) was prepared to be lenient. "You don't do counter-espionage with choir boys," said Teitgen. There would be no public trial: "It is necessary ... to safeguard certain secrets...
Behind Un Homme is a very real character: Claude-Henri Grignon, 52-year-old writer-producer. When he drops his pen, he becomes the quarrelsome mayor of Ste. Adele, in the Laurentians north of Montreal. There he bosses his 1,200 constituents, fights resort hotel owners for more taxes, butts his head against the steady advance of tourist commercialism which he fears will destroy Ste. Adele's joie de vivre. No one in the Laurentians hates city life more than Claude-Henri. For 15 years he was a failure in Montreal, writing acid critiques and a bad book. Then...
...months it turned into a $9,000 job). His sponsor: ex-Congressman Samuel Dickstein, now a New York City judge. Garsson's chief interest: high-salaried alien cinema stars who might be proved to be in the country illegally. Among his interests: Gilbert Roland, Anna Sten, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Farrow...
...hard-hitting Foreign Minister Herbert Vere Evatt (rhymes with rev it) was spokesman for the small nations as he had been at San Francisco; he went to bat for a simple majority rather than a two-thirds' majority rule. He was bitterly seconded by Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, chairman of the Rules Committee: "The great powers. . .attempt to impose upon us rules of voting which in practice prevent us from securing acceptance for our points of view. . . . Finally . . . they ask us to make them a few recommendations...
Madeleine Carroll, cinemactress who became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for wartime Red Crossing, was reported married again, two months after her divorce from Cinemactor Stirling Hayden. Her third, said Paris' Le Monde, was one Henri Lavorel, an officer of the French underground...