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Died. Maurice Bunau-Varilla, 88, opportunist publisher of Paris' recently pro-Nazi Le Matin, brother of the late famed engineer, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who helped start the Panama Canal; in Paris. In appreciation of Le Matin's sup port, the invading Nazis ordered large quantities of Synthol, an externally ap plied headache nostrum under Bunau-Varilla's control...
...plot of "Missing Girls" is closely autobiographical, for its author, Matin Mooney, was a New York newspaper man who period into that city's underworld ten years ago and was martyred by a jail sentence for insisting on the journalistic principle of refusing to reveal his sources of information. For all who remember this stirring episode in American newspaper history, "Missing Girls," featuring inimitable performances by such Hollywood notables as Roger Pryor, and Muriel Evans, is a must...
Similar means of extracting a living from journalism were those employed by Le Matin's Publisher Maurice Bunau-Varilla (whose brother started the Panama Canal). A classic case was Bunau-Varilla's campaign against Leopold II of Belgium, which stopped suddenly after special concessions were granted a Belgian Congo railway of which Bunau-Varilla was a director. In his later years the publisher became interested in a pharmaceutical formula known as Synthol. It was adopted first by the French Army. Later the Germans professed to need it in great quantities. When France fell, Le Matin was the first...
...said the Mirror, and her salon is a meeting place for high-ranking Nazis and highly placed French collaborationists. Corinne came by her preference for Germans honestly. Her father, Jean Luchaire, is a leader of the pro-Nazi National People's Party, editor of the Nazi-controlled Le Matin and Les Nouveaux Temps...
Corinne Luchaire, 20 (Prison Without Bars), protegee two years ago of British Cinemaproducer Alexander Korda. Her father has been made publisher of Le Matin and Les Nouveaux Temps...