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...months and sold a series of articles about the adventure to L'Intransigeant, caught on with Paris-Soir, married its editor, Pierre Lazareff. As the editor of Marie-Claire (a sort of Ladies' Home Journal with a French accent), she ran its circulation to 1,250,-ooo copies a week before France fell. As wartime refugees in the U.S., the Lazareffs kept busy, he with the French section of OWI and she with Harper's Bazaar and the New York Times. M. Lazareff now edits France-Soir...
...next three months. Said he: U.S. coffee supplies are so short that a subsidy is "the only alternative either to a return to rationing or to a price increase to consumers of 5^ or more per pound of roasted coffee." Thus the RFC will pay about $25,000,-ooo to Latin American growers, at the rate of 3^ a pound, for all coffee (up to 6,000,000 Ibs.) sold to the U.S. between Nov. 19 and next March...
Artist Rolf Armstrong, who gets $12,-ooo a picture for painting B & B's most popular girls, said it was a natural tribute to "the beauty of figure that seems to happen only in the American girl...
...China the U.S. Marines were busy at a traditional chore: carrying out a tidying-up expedition on a foreign shore. The forces involved numbered some 53,-ooo-almost three times the size of the whole Marine Corps in 1939. They were the Third Amphibious Corps, who had been landed on the coast of northern China (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...European forces, now 2,780,000 strong, will shrink to 400,000. How many men will be required to police the Japanese islands, nobody knew; some guessed 1,500,-ooo...