Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young French Airman Jean-Louis Tournier, like a character out of Dumas, lived only for revenge-revenge for an indignity practiced upon him in a New York bar two years ago when a group of G.I.s got friendly with him, went along with him to his hotel room, and disappeared...
He began to haunt the bars of Montmartre searching for American soldiers. Finding one, he would strike up a conversation in excellent English. "In France," he would say, "we consider the numbers 1 and 10 unlucky. I hope your hotel room bears a lucky number." Falling into the trap, the...
Last week, with the River Seine richer by more than 15 G.I. suitcases, the police finally caught up with Jean-Louis Tournier. "I never took anything for myself," he explained proudly to his captors. "It was a simple case of revenge."
Died. E. Lansing Ray, 71, longtime editor and publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; of a heart attack; in Rye Beach, N.H. Ray sold the newspaper to Manhattan's S. I. Newhouse last spring (TIME, April 4), but remained as publisher.
OUR SAMOAN ADVENTURE (264 pp.)-Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson-Harper ($4).