Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Simenon's prolific typewriter, and it calls for someone like his Inspector Maigret to solve it. The cast includes big-eyed, beautiful Dominique Lacaze, with a hint of mystery about her origins, and the two men of great talent and enormous wealth whom she married -Art Collector Paul Guillaume and Industrialist Jean Walter. There are the nagging riddles of their deaths, the odd behavior of her elegant brother Jean, the mysterious comings and goings of the magnetic Dr. Lacour, the ex-paratrooper willing to murder for money, and the fetching blonde prostitute called...
Wide Hat, Faint Smile. The story began in the exciting Paris of the 1920s, through which moved Dominique Lacaze, gathering admirers of her slim beauty and quick intelligence. In 1925, she married Paul Guillaume, a wealthy art dealer, the friend of Apollinaire, Cocteau, Utrillo, and of André Derain, whose portrait of Dominique shows her in a wide hat, with a faint smile, a withdrawn expression and eyes that a man could drown in. In 1934 Paul Guillaume died under curious circumstances. At first it was reported that he had been lost at sea on a fishing expedition, then that...
Corruptible Wealth. By this time, Dominique had another devoted admirer, the architect and industrialist Paul Walter, whose revenues from the vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco at one time represented 10% of the entire foreign revenue of France. They were married in 1941. A tall, tough, humorous man, Paul Walter had both ideas and imagination. He gave away millions of francs, endowed hospitals from Paris to Istanbul, established the Zellidja Foundation, which offered tiny cash grants to young students on their pledge to travel widely and live by their wits (TIME, Dec. 1). He also had -with apparent...
...interest me. What I want is to find my real mother." Preparing to return to Paris this week, Dominique Lacaze Guillaume Walter, still handsome at 53, broke her long silence to say icily: "This affair is a plot against my brother Jean Lacaze by my adopted son Jean-Paul Guillaume...
Importer for the gadgets is Cambridge Businessman Paul Grindle, whose Ealing Corp. sells foreign educational equipment to the U.S. market. Grindle saw some of the machines on the cover of a Russian physics magazine, went to Moscow and began negotiations. The gadgets are good, says Grindle, because they are designed by clever engineers specifically for teaching, cheap because they are already in mass production for Russian schools...