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Ralph 124C 41+ and Immortality. Born in Luxembourg, Hugo took an electric bell apart at the age of six. At 13 he was allowed to install a telephone system in a Luxembourg convent (he says he got a special dispensation to enter it from Pope Leo XIII). At 22, having moved to Manhattan, he built one of the first amateur wireless transmitters with which he could ring a bell a quarter of a mile away. But then Hugo's imagination began outstripping his technical resources...
...French Government on the fact that 95% of the French people are under the German heel, only 5% free. But many an observer at once pointed out that the U.S. recognizes eight other European Governments in exile, whose people are at least 95% under the German heel (Luxembourg, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Greece and Yugoslavia...
Likewise, Luxembourg "received the German troops in a friendly way," now detests "all Germans" because of "closing of the monasteries . . . numerous banishments of priests . . . [deaths of] citizens in concentration camps...
...first show, in Buenos Aires. During the following nine years he held 19 exhibitions in South America, Paris, Brussels, and London. Today his work hangs in the Luxembourg. Wrote French Critic Georges Pillement: "The charm of Figari is extraordinary. [He] will certainly remain one of the most marvelous colorists who has ever lived...
...France there were no balloons for sale at the Rond Point on the Champs Elysées, but youngsters still sailed their boats on the Luxembourg Gardens pond. In the southern provinces housewives hung wooden-bead curtains over the doors to keep out the flies...