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HEDDY D'ORSAY New York City...
...publicaine, added motorcycle outriders for good measure. There were 10,000 reserve officers in the houses along the route. Thus the State progress from the Bois de Boulogne to the Arc de Triomphe, down the Champs-Elysees, across the Place de la Concorde to the Palais d'Orsay, last week was a stately military parade, enlivened by wave on wave of cheering, and by Gaelic chaffing at the expense of "That scared rabbit Sarraut!" As the King's car reached the Place de la Concorde, there broke out from the Eiffel Tower an enormous Union Jack, said...
...statesmen as the car in which they rode followed the procession. The $7,500.000 jewels meanwhile were whisked quietly to the British Embassy, locked up in the safe. Individual pieces were brought separately by the Scotland Yard detectives to Their Majesties, who lodged on the Quai d'Orsay in the palace of the French Foreign Office. There, the large bed in which small Emperor Napoleon once slept was found just right for tall George VI, but Queen Elizabeth proved too tall to be comfortable in the bed of petite Marie Antoinette and this priceless antique was quickly replaced...
Back in Paris that evening, Queen Elizabeth decided it was about time she and King George insisted on appearing to the clamoring Paris populace at close range. In progress at the Palais d'Orsay was an evening's entertainment by such world favorites as Maurice Chevalier and Yvonne Printemps, staged for the King and Queen and about 120 guests. The party could be seen through the brightly lighted windows of the Palace. Popular cheers and impatience increased, and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut squirmed nervously on his chair, several times half rose as if to order the curtains...
Sued for Divorce. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, playboy member of Chicago's rich hotel family;* by his third wife, Pauline Warren Palmer, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. heiress; in Sarasota...