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...asked me why I did not go to Algiers or to England and join the Free French. But what would I have been with the Free French? I would not have been Resident General of Tunisia. I might not even have been an admiral. I might have been just Monsieur Esteva...
...portrays most fondly and skilfully are such acquaintances of his musical wanderings as Maurice, an orchestra leader "who was brought up on Pernod instead of mother's milk"; Boris, a violinist who "occasionally [ate] caviar with his right hand, playing a stunning pizzicato sequence with his left" Monsieur Arnould, a music director who had something "of the jovial, placid, dignity of the bull fiddle" he once played; Franzl, an amateur pianist whose reason for living was the hope that some day he might work on Wall Street (he owned six inches of genuine New York ticker tape...
...soldier swapped a 2-lb. can of coffee for a bright scarlet dress in Schiaparelli's shop. Eyeing the coffee greedily, the Schiaparelli manager moaned: "Vous êtes dur, monsieur...
...Dave Clevenger, discouraged over the unhappy turn of events that had him escorting the most popular girl in the group. He saw her twice all evening. Fred Walther riding one of the horses bareback on the journey home (and they only serve soft drinks at Norumbega). Colonel Cornelius and Monsieur Bland piloting two of the hayracks homeward. The Colonel made the trip without, a mishap, but Lou ran into difficulties. See "Diz" Diano for the full story on how Lou dropped the reins, and how the horse made his way across the road, with the wagon ending...
...those days Andre Maurois wrote: ". . . There was an immediate clash between the morbid susceptibilities of Monsieur Desjardins . . . the diabolical maliciousness of Gide. . . . The Germans . . . enveloped the lucid ideas of the Frenchmen in ... abstractions . . . Lytton Strachey ... in amazement at our lack of humor . . . went to sleep. ... Its virtues far outweighed its drawbacks. . . . There was talk of giving Paul Desjardins the Nobel Prize for Peace...