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...French) thought the time had come for a stronger man, and the Emperor had constitutional power to make the change. The new man is no stooge of the French, but believes that first things come first. Within hours of his accession, the new Premier announced his policy: "Je fais la guerre [I make war]," said Nguyen Van Tarn. Few who knew him doubted that he would...
...Je Vous Ai Eu!" In his 31 years, Farouk I has become known principally as a glutton, a high-stakes gambler and a wolf. On the Riviera this summer, he has added diligently to his reputation. The Carlton Hotel (where he and his entourage occupy 32 rooms at $2,000 a day) keeps chefs working round the clock because His Majesty might feel hungry at any hour of the day or night. For a typical lunch, he may consume bouchees a la reine, sole, mutton chops, chicken fricassee, a whole roast chicken, a whole lobster, mashed potatoes, peas, rice, artichokes...
...opened neck of his shirt, he would snap his fingers, and an attendant would place a stack of chips in front of His Majesty. He tossed in the square white discs, worth a million francs ($2,850) each, as though they were marbles, and when he won, he shouted "Je vous ai eu! [Got you!]," roaring with laughter. When he lost, he laughed too. Croupiers, whom he often left hoarse and groggy after all-night sessions, had a nickname for the huge, lusty man who puffs eight-inch cigars and gambles with machine-like energy-they call him The Locomotive...
Kentucky Waltz (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). With only a handful of states accounted for, it looks as though Tin Pan Alley plans to force U.S. music lovers to waltz their way through the rest of the 48. Je T'Adore (Bette Chapel; Mercury). Miss Chapel's cozy, loose-upper-plate style gives distinction to a run-of-the-mill intime ballad...
Confronted for example, with the declaration: "Je suis furleux," they refuse to bother filling out any syntax forms. Instead, Taylor draws a man bearing four mink wraps, and Pearson smoothy translates the sentence...