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...White Charger is a novel about Michel, an illegitimate son. Father spends most of his time at sea, mother spends most of hers smoking opium, so Michel soon learns to look after himself. He grows into a talented pianist and crooner -but so indifferent to the life of post-World War I that he scarcely bothers to sing for his supper. Women-princesses, chambermaids, davies, chorines-are all bowled over by Michel's fascinating indifference. At 25, Michel is the western world's most bored Casanova, married to an aging American moneybag and hopelessly in love with...
...Aragon tries earnestly to explain that Michel's gigolory results from his being at heart a frustrated knight-errant in today's ignoble world. She redeems his calloused soul by making him die nobly in World War II. But three-fourths of The White Charger is simply a listing of Michel's tedious romantic conquests. Only the most dogged reader will remember, by the end, just what made Elisabeth different from Mary, or from Marjorie, and Riri, and Gisėle, and Irene, and Francine, and Nicole, and Mariana, and Lu-cette, and Lily-to mention only...
...back to the ways of peace; the Channel swimmer was on the job again. Last week a 6-ft., 225-lb. Chilean named Jorge Berroeta set out to swim the English Channel. He gulped some of his secret-formula soup, a recipe he hides from his trainer, Georges Michel, who set the Channel record in 1926. Then he plunged into the icy water at Cap Gris Nez, bound for Dover...
Some 4% of Budapest's citizens live in morbid, black-market-borne luxury, nightly jam the few remaining big hotels, famed restaurants like Gundel's or the Cafe Michel, theaters, cabarets and movie houses. For the rest of the people, food rations are down to 556 calories...
...Minister of the General Situation. They were "Lopologists," and their program to save France was "Lopeo-therapy"; it called for the elimination olf poverty after 10 p.m., the rebuilding of Paris in the country because it lacks air; the nationalization of brothels. Extremists want to extend the Boulevard St. Michel to the sea, with a comfort station every 50 yards...