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...then a wine merchant, and for a while he was happy. "I was gaining a foothold. To complicate things, I needed a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids . . . [Then] catastrophe, it took hold of me again. I rented a little atelier on Boulevard Saint-Michel, I locked myself in. My wife didn't like it, that's understandable; she disappeared in a trap door, melted away. Bon voyage...
...Sudden Death. Bad luck, bad weather and just plain fatigue dogged the competitors from start to finish. French favorite Michel Collange was just one kilometer short of the finish line when the brakes of his Simca coupe jammed tight. Just outside Mons, Belgium, Swiss Veteran Willy Berger apparently fell asleep at the wheel, smashed his Citroën into a parked truck, was killed instantly. His companion driver, André Hotz, was hauled off to the hospital where he later died...
...Criminal. Soon afterward, his leg irons resting comfortably against the grill of his cell, Meurant was enjoying a game of belote with two guards. Suddenly he whipped out the revolver. "One move," he said pleasantly, "and I'll burn you." While Meurant brandished his weapon, his cellmate, Murderer Michel Courtin, got the keys and unlocked the door. Meurant rounded up two more guards, locked them in the cell with the others, rummaged through the clothes locker for his good suit, and then calmly sat down to finish a letter. "I am escaping only to prove my innocence," he wrote...
...newspaper El Intransigente, in the northern Argentine city of Salta, was neither as big, old, rich, or famous as Buenos Aires' late great La Prensa. But under the editing of David Michel Torino, 56, it was Salta's best newspaper. Like La Prensa, El Intransigente was also outspokenly anti-Peron. For that it has been forced to pay with its life...
Henry Adams, in his eloquent book about Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, called these windows "the most splendid color decoration the world ever saw, since no other material, neither silk nor gold, and no opaque color laid on with a brush, can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them...