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Yoghurt in Paris. At 32, pretty Kristina Czaykowska, the heroine of Paris Original, is a receptionist in "Maison Deschamps," a Parisian stronghold of haute couture. She feels more like a shopworn beauty than a sleeping one. In the spring of 1947, she is three years away from her native Warsaw and eight years estranged from a husband who opted for the "People's Poland." She lives on yoghurt and corn bread, scurries home each night to her lonely, thimble-sized flat, and keeps telling herself that Paris is wonderful. But the only Paris Kristina knows, the goldfish bowl...
...familiar with the sharply angled turns where a miscue can send car and driver hurtling into trees. He knows the delicate little jog at Maison Blanche, almost midway in the long (2.7 mile) northwest straightaway-where the drivers are at flat-out top speed and where British-born Driver Tommy Cole spun out and was killed last year. "I was following right behind him," said Cunningham. "I saw a yellow flag and jammed on the brakes, and saw him lying on the road and his car rammed up against the gully. You have to concentrate like the devil...
...hours, only 28 entries remained, and the fast Ferraris were out of the running. By that time, a huge Sunday crowd of 200,000 people lined the course. Some of them saw what they came to see when Driver Tommy Cole, taking the Maison Blanche curve at 100 m.p.h. in his Ferrari, spun out, was thrown to the road and killed...
...French history and France itself, to which she returns each summer, are her first loves. She named the Club, Henri IV, in honor of that great French king's benevolent gluttony. Every French family, he vowed, would have a Poule au Maison, at least on Sundays--and this is the Club's specialty. to keep Henri company, Genevieve is opening a pastry shop called Gabrielle across Boylston Street. "Gabrielle," explains Genevieve, "was Henri's mistress. It's only right that they should be together, don't you think...
...more girl must sign the petition for a "Maison Francaise" at Radcliffe, in order to have it brought before the Administration. So far, 24 have signed, but the petition will be taken down on March...