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...even with an implicit U.S. green light to keep fighting a while longer, a military-only strategy would be self-defeating for Israel. Carpet bombing Hizballah strongholds is impossible, says military spokesman Captain Mitch Pilcer, because "some of these Lebanese are our allies, and if they come back to a flattened town, they might turn around and join Hizballah." Indeed, although Christian, Druze and some other factions in Lebanon were furious at Hizballah for instigating the war and hiding weapons in civilian neighborhoods that then suffer Israeli retaliation, polls show that the group's overall popularity in Lebanon...
Slick little Harry Pilcer, the Fred Astaire of 30 years ago, was only one of the devotees of slim, baby-eyed Parisian Dancer Gaby Deslys, who, according to legend, helped King Manoel II of Portugal lose his throne. When Gaby died, Harry Pilcer became executor for her $2,000,000 estate. Back to his native U. S. last week, banished by the Nazis from the 21-room Paris apartment of his late, fabled dancing partner (which he had kept as a shrine after her death in 1920), came aging Harry Pilcer...
...question the greatest "gyp" joint ever foisted on an American public. You can't turn around without bumping into an extended palm, and my first experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction, and I must say that he did the United States a great favor when he departed Parisward. Paris isn't wild about Americans, but we will go there...
...Council of Freemasons in Great Britain; E. Francis Hyde, onetime Vice President of the Central Trust Co.; Bernard Gallant, proprietor of the Club Gallant, Manhattan restaurant recently padlocked by Prohibition enforcement officers; Ho Kom Tong, Chinese banker bound for London to be knighted by George, R. I.; Harry Pilcer, onetime dancing partner of Gaby Deslys; Miss M. Carey Thomas, President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr...
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