Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joanovici, in the classic fashion of those who reinsure, did not neglect the other side: he contributed heavily to the French resistance, claims to have saved thousands of Jews from deportation. Resistance Leader Albert Bayet testified that "Joanovici supplied us with arms without which the 1944 Paris uprising could not...
A Staggering Fine. In 1949 his luck wavered. Found guilty in Paris of speculation, tax evasion and "illicit profitmaking," Joanovici was sentenced to five years in prison and fined a staggering billion francs (roughly $3,000,000). After serving two years, he was let out but confined to the small...
In November 1957 Joanovici got police permission to pay a visit to his mistress in Paris. He was not seen again; but the Minister of the Interior received a letter in which Joanovici "regretfully announced" that "I am not able to earn enough money to reimburse the state . . . therefore I...
The third and most decisive of these victories, foreshadowed at the recent NATO session in Paris, became official last week when the U.S., Britain and France, in different but "convergent" notes, rejected Khrushchev's proposals for all occupying nations to withdraw from a "free Berlin," which would then be...
L'Air de Paris (Jacqueline Francois; Columbia LP). Unlike her world-weary compatriot, Juliette Greco, Chanteuse Francois breathes her Paris airs with the garlicky gusto of a clothesmonger in the Flea Market. Her best number, Java Mondaine, is a Gallic shrug at a titled ancestor "who put his head...