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Young Mr. Edison. After the war, Sturges returned to the Maison Desti. He knew a good deal about cosmetics, invented a kissproof lipstick. His mother, in England with a fourth husband, was on the rocks again. She claimed the business; he handed it over and went to work as a free-lance inventor. By the time he was 30 he was about as flat a failure as a man of his age and background could be. Then his appendix ruptured, and saved his life...
With no Gallic kiss, but a handshake, sensitive General Henri Giraud (five stars) greeted sensitive General Charles de Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united...
...came, not to the port itself, but to the sandy beaches a few miles from the city. There they disgorged Rangers (U.S. commandomen) for initial landings, infantry, artillery and tanks to consolidate and widen the landings. Their purposes were to pincer the city itself, and to seize Blida and Maison-Blanche, Algiers' two main airdromes...
...Maison-Blanche fell without a fight; U.S. paratroops seized Blida airdrome. U.S troops marched quickly inland to cut the Algiers-Oran railway. U.S. and British fighters and light bombers flew in to the captured airdromes from carriers; other bombers arrived, probably from Gibraltar...
Editions de la Maison Française, in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, is run by a wispy, gentle, bespectacled little Frenchman named V. S. Crespin, who became a U.S. citizen in 1925. He set up a business importing new, old and rare books from France. One day after France's downfall André Maurois dropped in to see him with the manuscript of a new book, Tragédie en France. Of course Maurois could get it translated into English, but he would like also to publish it in the original. Then & there Crespin decided to start publishing...