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Almost any alert bystander can detect an approaching switch in the Communist Party line, but it takes an expert to guess the exact number of rings in a rattlesnake's tail. The Parisian newspaper Le Figaro has an expert who, listening closely to the rattling of the French party, has accurately forecast such moves as Leader Maurice Thorez' summons to Moscow in 1950 and the recent purging of oldtime militants Marty and Tillon. Last week Le Figaro's expert, who signs himself "XXX," predicted that the next man marked for Communist oblivion is pudgy, acting Party Secretary...
...respectable, thrifty and discreet; at home with account books but uneasy with the great books; shrewd and commonsensical, and sometimes, underneath the humdrum exterior, imaginatively simple. He slipped into the premiership of France like a little-known guest emerging from behind the draperies into the babbling center of a Parisian literary salon...
...come along since the war. He put his proposals to the country as fast as he put them to the Assembly, then calmly told the Deputies: here it is; approve it, or give the responsibility to someone else. The reaction from back home suddenly sounded louder & clearer than the Parisian sidewalk café arguments so dear to French politicians...
...Parisian news photographers, Montparnasse salesgirls and, above all, thousands of confident, confiding children agreed as one that benevolent old Adrien Claude was the best Father Christmas that Paris had ever seen. His flowing white beard and the kindness that danced in his twinkling blue eyes were as genuine as those of the legendary Christmas saint himself. When Adrien made his appearance last year in the toy department of one of the biggest department stores on the Left Bank, children left the firm grip of parental hands with a shout of joy to clamber into his lap, pull his beard...
...many a Parisian, the romantic arrangements of Auguste Chaussumier, salesman of pinball machines, must have seemed ideal and idyllic. Little Auguste had a lovely mistress, and the mistress had a husband who was safely employed some 3,000 miles away from Paris, in the Cameroons. Even Lucienne, the light of Auguste's love, thought the arrangement was pretty sound. But Salesman Auguste was as conventional as he was devoted: he wanted only to marry his mistress...