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...love You, I like You, I'm crazy for you. . . . But I'm Napoleon Bonaparte." That's the tone of this year's Valentines as lacey pictures of love struck hearts and blushing young maidens vanish before the incoming rush of humorous gag cards...
...Xenophon's 10,000 Greeks retreated through hostile territory for 1,500 miles from the Tigris, but they were not chased; Charles X of Sweden retreated 1,000 miles from Yaroslav to Warsaw, sometimes chased; Napoleon was haphazardly chased 500 miles from Moscow; Chief Joseph and 600 Nez Percé Indians were chased by the U.S. Army 1,300 miles from the Wallowa Valley in Oregon to the Canadian border, but 600 Indians could scarcely be called an army...
...year-old artist, brush in hand, died of a heart attack. Last week one Felix Napoleon Gerson of Philadelphia wrote the New York Times that when he attempted one evening in 1883, to stare at the Nymphs and Satyr and use the Hoffman House alcohol cigaret lighter at the same time, the bartender called to him: "Say, young fellow, don't light your nose...
...explain why De Lattre de Tassigny, apparently guilty of mutiny, was charged with "abandoning his post." Last week at a secret trial in Lyon he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment (or for the "duration"). Imprisoned, he could still consider himself in gallant company. Youthful Prince Louis Napoleon, Bonapartist pretender, was arrested last week while trying to run the border into Spain...
...until last week, when the State Department revealed that Liberia had last spring signed a pact giving the U.S. jurisdiction over her airports and military installations until the war against tyrannical dictators is over. Said Liberia's 60-year-old President Edwin J. Barclay, echoing the words of Napoleon Edward Taylor: "Ours is a historical friendship...