Word: michele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answer. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Janet A. Michel complained that her husband forbade her to listen to radio quizzes be cause "he said he knew all the answers and I didn't need to know them," won a divorce...
...Economy. A former mayor of Algiers, Brunei escaped arrest during a De Gaullist roundup last December only by virtue of his prestige. His son Jacques was in jail until last month. Out as propaganda secretary went pro-Axis Jean Rigaud, to be replaced by distinguished General Rene Michel Jules Joseph Chambe, a soldier and writer untainted by Axis collaboration...
There is one thing I would like to correct you on, though. The Comte and Comtesse de Paris have eight children, not six as you stated. They are Isabelle (1932-), Henri (1933-), Helene (1934-), Francois (1935-), Anne (1938-), Diane (1940-), Michel and Jacques (1941-). The last two are twins. He therefore has four sons and four daughters...
There were no eggs for omelettes at La Mère Poulard's famous restaurant on Mont-Saint-Michel. Customers shivered in the cold behind the glass winter windows of the Café de la Paix, the Deux Magots...
...Died. Michel Fokine, 62, Russian "father of the modern ballet," and its greatest choreographer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A rebel, he organized an "underground" ballet movement in the early 1900s. In & out of the good graces of the Bolsheviks, he fled to the U.S. in 1919. Famed among Fokine's early followers were Nijinsky, Mordkin, Adolph Bolm, and Pavlova, for whom he created "The Dying Swan." Among his 70-odd ballets are most of the modern school's best-known works: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka...