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Without knowing it, TIME also sketched a revealing portrait of contemporary Germany. Pale but plump, simple-minded but Prussianistically pompous...
...years. A soap and perfume salesman, Clé lived with Félicie in a cozy, two-room Paris apartment just down the street from Père-Lachaise Cemetery. He was a quiet man, always neatly dressed, always polite to his neighbors. Félicie was a short, plump, sad-eyed widow with bobbed greying hair. Eleven months ago she disappeared. Clé explained, "Félicie has gone to Italy. Life is much easier there. I will soon join her." But to occasional callers who rang the bell and asked for her, Charles Clément was more...
...Eventually Spiro is infected with the virus of sophistication, lands in the arms of Helen Bristow, a lonely, pliable American matron of about 45 who likes to play with Greek fire. Unfortunately for her, Spiro soon develops a rage to leave-for a pastry-plump Hellenic miss whose shipping-magnate daddy happens to be loaded with sugar. When Helen commits suicide, Spiro suffers a bad quarter-hour's remorse; it is nothing compared to the remorse he suffers after he marries the millionaire's daughter and discovers that wily old papa has cut the newlyweds off without...
When recording stars do not exist, it is necessary for artists-and-repertory men to invent them. The newest, dewiest invention is a plump, pleasant-voiced 19-year-old named Jennie Smith. In the year and a half since she graduated from high school in Charleston. W. Va. (pop. 75,000), Jennie, who looks like the second-prettiest girl at a high-school prom, has taken on a new name (old one: Jo Ann Kristof), learned to gush cute quotes ("I'm crazy about mustard sandwiches ... I sing sad songs saddest when I'm happy...
Among the high-living union bosses spotlighted by the McClellan committee last summer was the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' creampuff-plump President James G. Cross, who had spent union dough lavishly for personal expenses, including upkeep of a girl friend several times convicted as a tart. After studying the testimony, theA.F.L.-C.I.O.'s rock-firm President George Meany ordered the 160,000-member union to get rid of Cross or else. Last week the Bakery Workers' Cross-bossed executive board balked at the order. Meany & Co. promptly suspended the union, sending it to join Jimmy Hoffa...