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...Reynaud, a thrifty man, had a 21-year-old map in his office. Instead of buying a new one, he kept up with history by marking Germany's acquisitions in red chalk, Russia's in yellow. In the photograph Germany and Russia looked like one. The censor did not like it, ordered the map retouched. (In the first copies of the photograph of the Welles-Reynaud conversations which reached the U. S., the map was blanked out entirely.) L'Illustration, more concerned with art than geography, sketched in Europe's frontiers with considerable inaccuracy. The borders...
...into his own Ministry until the meticulous Republican Guard officer on duty, who from the first had recognized M. Frossard, wrote him out a temporary laissez passer for that day only, warned the Minister that he would not be admitted again unless he carried a proper pass bearing his photograph, stamped and signed...
...Albanians approached Mr. Gade with the object of installing the King in the chateau. It was suggested to Mr. Gade that in lieu of rent he would be decorated with the Albanian Order of Skanderbeg. Mr. Gade just wanted his rent. He was then presented with an autographed photograph of ex-Queen Geraldine. Mr. Gade still wanted his rent. The King then forwarded a handsome knickknack, which he said had been a personal gift from Tsar Nicholas of all the Russias. Mr. Gade had the present traced to a curiosity shop on the Rue St. Honore, where it had been...
...last week The Daily Princetonian carried the In & Out Club's first contribution to the university. It was a photograph; professing to be a composite picture of Princeton's 2,100 students-the typical Princeton undergraduate, 1940-style. Next day the composite was found to be a hoax-a retouched photo of swashbuckling Cinemactor Errol Flynn, minus mustache and with a crew haircut. Said the unabashed In & Out Club: "What's wrong with the picture...
...newsman, Villa-Lobos said: "I, who have never seen your city of New York, but who adore it, will set down its melody expressly for you." Seizing a photograph of Manhattan's lower sky line, the composer exclaimed: "The feeling that this photo gives me is distinctly minor, though I know that the interior of the city is distinctly major. I would base this on C Minor." So. making a quick tracing of the sky line, he did. Puffing on a big 7?cigar, he sketched out the melody twice, sang it froggily, exclaimed at its Oriental character, finished...