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...divorces her, the better to enjoy her favors when she becomes another man's wife. Brialy, a successful "lay-out artist," jilts his bride (Marie Laforêt) at the altar, leaves for a solo honeymoon m Athens, where he matches wits with a^ vivacious swindler (Françhise Dor-léac, real-life sister of Actress Deneuve), who ultimately becomes his better half...
...postwar Europe's many economic miracles, one of the most notable has been wrought by a Paris-based firm improbably known as La Compagnie Françhise Thomson-Houston.* Within barely a decade, Thomson- Houston has not only risen from relative obscurity to the top rank of French industry, but also has succeeded in persuading Frenchmen that its name is as Gallic as De Gaulle. "Thomson sonne bien" (Thomson sounds good) is the company's slogan...
...stiff retainer of $500 a month. Four weeks later, Blauner was back in Boyle's office in a high state of excitement because the RFC, for the second time, had turned down Lithofold's loan application. Boyle picked up his telephone and called Chairman Harley Hise of RFC. Blauner got an appointment with Hise within the hour. Three days later, in March 1949, Lithofold was granted a loan of $80,000, followed shortly by two others totaling...
Successful Phone Call. Someone at the conference-Toole couldn't remember who-mentioned the magic name of Bill Boyle, now chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The American Lithofold people went to Boyle's Washington office. Boyle called Harley Hise, then RFC chairman, and said, "Harley, I have some friends in the office here of Jim Finnegan's. I would like for you to arrange to see them this afternoon if possible in connection with a loan." Toole recorded in his diary that, three days after this phone call, the loan application reached a "strange, strenuous...
...replace Hise and Gunderson on RFC's board, and to fill the vacancy left by Director Henry Mulligan, who resigned almost four months ago, the President last week made three nominations: two were Democrats-Oklahoma Banker W. Elmer Harber and Massachusetts Lawyer C. Edward Rowe-and the third was a Republican who talks like a Democrat: Utah Banker Walter E. Cosgriff. The President also renominated RFC Director William E. Willett, to a three-year term. He will probably be the new RFC chairman...