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...after a stint as drama critic for Le Temps, has found it easy to laugh off such attacks by the opposition. Since 1945 Le Figaro's circulation has doubled to 400,000. Not so funny, however, has been the opposition from another source-Le Figaro's owner, Mme. Yvonne Cotnareanu, former wife of the late Perfumer François Coty...
Princess Elena of Rumania, better known before her 1947 marriage as Mme. Magda Lupescu, came to grief while visiting the International Stamp Exhibition at London's Grosvenor House with her husband and longtime (23 years) royal lover, former King Carol of Rumania. The princess caught her heel at the top of a short flight of stairs, tumbled, landed in a mink-clad heap twelve steps below. Damage: a badly bruised right...
Fatty threatened gently for two hours. Mme. de Vasselot remained adamant. Then the petit gros forgot his manners. Whipping out a pocket knife, he vowed he would cut Madame's ears off then & there if she did not relent. Mme. de Vasselot opened the safe...
...Regular customers at the Molot know that exhibit by heart. The newspapers in the reading room are a year old." Moviegoers may write their gripes in a Complaints Register, but it does not do much good. Reported Evening Moscow's crusading newsmen: "Once a patron asked a question. Mme. Nosovaya, the cashier, refused to answer him. The manager entered in the book: 'The cashier was too busy; she had no time to talk...
...from a sentimental journey to Paris' Rue de la Huchette, which he pictured so tenderly in The Last Time I Saw Paris. About one-third of the 1,500 people who lived on the street in the early '30s were still there, he reported. Oldtimers included Mme. Frémont, the laundress, Taxidermist Noël and the chestnut vendor. The traffic was the same as 20 years ago, said Paul-it was a marvel anybody was alive...