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...show were by those who had escaped to nature. Maurice H. Bisharat, a Connecticut doctor, had descended into his cellar to paint dead leaves in a vase, and won a gold medal for capturing the musty golden light in his hideout. A New Hampshire housewife named Eugénie C. Cooney had won another medal with her painstaking portrait of a lonely pine overlooking the sea. Dr. Harry Smallen had studied the surf at Martha's Vineyard, Mass, and successfully avoided the soapy-water look that makes most amateur seascapes dreary as dishpans. An old New England mill seen...
...Cheers?" The speakers produced their well-worn libels with the pride of a paterfamilias displaying yellowed family photographs. Some of the veterans seemed bored; Soviet Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg fought the good fight part of the time in the bar, sampling French liqueurs. Fragile, gray-haired Mme. Eugénie Cotton, French physicist and president of the International Democratic Federation of Women (who had been denied a visa to the New York conference) smiled tender approval of the proceedings. The conference chairman, lean, somber Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, France's atomic-energy boss, set the keynote...
...after a few side trips to the pyramids at Giza and the Temple of Amun at Luxor, Eugénie arrived at Port Said on the Aigle. There she was met by the Emperor of Austria, the Crown Prince of Prussia and the Prince of The Netherlands...
There was only one small shadow in all that dazzle to blight her joy. Sometime during the ceremonies Eugénie's pet turtle La Reine wandered off in the general direction of the pyramids. It was not found again until after the Empress had left for France...
...glitter of royalty has disappeared from most of the world, France's empire has almost been forgotten, kings have given way to commoners, and the Suez Canal itself, under British control, has flowed on through the rise & fall of many another empire. Through all those years Eugénie's La Reine has stretched and slept under the hot Egyptian...