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...Mendès-France, playing shrewdly on France's century-old fear of German domination, had belabored the proposal in language and innuendo all but identical to that used by the Communist orators. Worse yet. four other former Premiers-Edgar Faure. Joseph Laniel, Antoine Pinay and Paul Reynaud-lent their names to a motion that demanded as the price of French participation that the other five nations must agree to put up capital for France's overseas territo ries, while giving France complete control over the spending of the money...
Enthusiastic Search. By 1944 the group was becoming familiar to French radio listeners, but the members still supported themselves and their wives by jobbing in local orchestras. In 1948 Delvincourt lent them a house in Paris (willed to him by a music-loving friend). "It was very little, very dirty, very uncomfortable," says Jacques Parrenin. "Our wives didn't want to live there." Actually, after some refurbishing, all members and their families have lived there contentedly for the past eight years, played from morning till night. They got a few concert dates, and in 1952 came the break: they...
Gibson Girls & Cowboys. Cowles Magazines, Inc. (Look) agreed to pay $1,000,-ooo for the magazine title Collier's and for Crowell-Collier's Reader's Service, a subscription company that sold Collier's and other magazines. Cowles also lent Crowell-Collier $1,000.000. In addition, Cowles agreed to assume responsibility for $11 million worth of unexpired Collier's subscriptions, said that former Collier's readers will have the choice of taking Look or "any one of several other magazines" or, if they insisted, cash refunds. Hearst's Good Housekeeping and McCall...
...Candia out of jail. Rose made no visible profit from his unusual generosity, while Di Candia, who arrived in Ellenville virtually penniless in 1949, owned two Cadillacs, a $40,000 home, a powerboat. Di Candia said that Rose did not even charge interest on the money he lent him; he thought it was Rose...
...brothers and their single girl friend was promptly transcribed into a movie whose uninhibited fidelity to detail would have whitened a Hollywood censor's hair overnight. More books and more movies followed, each proclaiming in brutish simplicity the joys of pointless violence and casual lust. The first novel lent its name to the cult of its worshipers, and the worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly the offspring of well-heeled parents, Ishihara's characters and Ishihara's fans alike spend their days and nights in unconscious parody of another lost...