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...unconcerned. This summer, as in every summer, the rich fled screeching, scorching Cairo and were relaxing in cool Alexandria or, like their King, on the Riviera. When they return to Cairo later in the fall, their womenfolk diamond-studded and sheathed in Parisian gowns, they will take up life in a small world of their own, which moves between exclusive clubs, theaters and palaces. They own most of Egypt's land, pay ludicrously small taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Locomotive | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...recently asked for a book bound in human skin. Foyle sent out his scouts, within a week shipped her a copy of French Novelist Eugène Sue's Vignettes les Mystères de Paris, printed in 1843 and bound in skin from the shoulders of his Parisian mistress, as she had directed in her will. Price: $28. Says William Foyle: "It's an interesting business, bookselling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Barnum of Books | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

People in Paris were coming down with something like parrot fevert-but they had not caught it from parrots. Dr. Pierre Lepine, the Pasteur Institute's virus expert, spent two years tracking down the culprit. Last week he had it: the plump Parisian pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Pigeons of Paris | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...necessary and profitable to run a charm school in Paris and launch a campaign for greater "amiability." Some weeks ago, the Ministers of Public Health, Education, Commerce & Industry enthusiastically jumped on Ranville's amiability bandwagon, formed an official committee to better "the day to day relationships of the Parisian people." By last week Parisian relationships were just about as sweet as a midinette's smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Beautiful People | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...committee announced a list of the most amiable Parisians, as chosen in a poll. Among the winners: a cab driver, a policeman, a salesgirl, a dress model and smiling President Vincent Auriol himself. Perhaps the most notable of all the prizewinners was vast, maternal Mme. Denise Muairon, 52, an imposing pillar of Parisian lovability. Mme. Muairon, the concierge at Numero 19 Rue Daru, belongs to a profession that is usually rated about as amiable as a barbed-wire fence. Unlike her colleagues, who snarl at one and all indiscriminately, Madame has smiled benignly from her glass-enclosed niche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Beautiful People | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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