Word: jours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trust the clerk will read the Jour nal slowly and clearly," he drawled with a sly wink at Hubert Humphrey. The clerk did, thereby used up the better part of an hour. As soon as he finished...
...last week, a startling change had come over the city's concierges. They ostentatiously polished brass and industriously sewed rips in the hall carpeting. A tenant's "Bon jour" met with a joyous response instead of surly silence. The concierges suddenly delighted in performing small favors, and mail was distributed in a matter of minutes, not hours. This gracious rebirth of courtesy is an annual event caused by étrennes, the New Year's tips from tenants which ordinarily make up the better part of a concierge's income...
What he did then, no one knew. But now they do: Drury went back to his bachelor apartment and typed out the voluminous entries for A Senate Jour nal, 1943-1945. Published as his third book, it is unlikely to achieve the success of Advise and Consent. But for those interested in how the Senate worked and worried in that chaotic, midwar period, Drury's moonlighting was well worth while...
...readers in a sea of small type without so much as a single photograph to cling to. But he has also made his paper must reading by virtue of penetrating, if plodding, political reportage. The greatest success story has been scored by a fresh, energetic morning tabloid called Paris-Jour, which sells 185,000 copies by heeding the dictum of Owner Cino del Duca: "Don't preach down to people...
...though it sometimes takes a jeweler's loupe to read all the fine print. In one painting a Paris streetwalker in all the trappings of her profession, from necklace cross to handbag to ankle bracelet, loiters in her doorway next to the Hôtel Beau Séjour. There will be no séjour today, however; on the hotel's door a tiny sign reads: "Closed for vacation." In another of Sivard's pictures, a Parisian nun is emerging from a Metro station with the frosted-glass peacock's fan of the canopy forming...