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Soon another Frenchman, the multimillionaire proprietor of Le Matin, Alfred Edwards, fell in love with her. The day Misia lunched at his home he left the table too distraught to eat. Edwards' wife berated Misia for upsetting the great man; rather than distress him, Mme. Edwards told her, Misia should become his mistress. Misia was indignant, but Edwards was persistent. For all the world like the heavy in a French melodrama, he lured Thadee Natanson into a disastrous business scheme, then offered to save him in exchange for Misia. The bargain was struck, Misia finally agreed, and after rapid...
...welfare or forms of government is the temper of the people. The United Nations, Schumann Plan, Council of Europe and NATO Brinton regards as significant accomplishments in a nationalistic and individualistic climate which has compelled the Communists in France to "represent Communism as a special benefactor of the peasant proprietor and the small shopkeeper." Whether a formidable union of 300 million people with industrial might superior to that of America would really be desirable, is really academic, for Brinton's shaggy simile declares attempts to form a sovereign union in nationalistic Europe "would be like asking a good miler...
...alert, gay and affectionate tomboy, she was educated at home by her strict mother and an English governess. Frederika was 17 before she was sent off to school, first in England, then in Florence. The Italian school was typical of many which catered especially to wealthy American girls. Its proprietor. Miss Edith May, was hesitant when the Duke of Brunswick sought to enter his daughter. Her school, she said, was not for princesses: it was a democratic institution where all girls would be treated alike, make their own beds and call each other by their first names...
...solid professional men and their families. But the past is sometimes still vividly near. The carollers still past on the Hill on Christmas Eve, and Louisburg residents still put candles out for them. But where it lives most vividly is in the minds he has asked about the Square, Proprietor said when he was asked about the Square, "I'd like to help you, but I don't really know anything about Louisburg Square--I only moved in ten years...
...little Manhattan glue and plywood store, one day in 1921, Proprietor Lawrence Ottinger turned to a 20-year-old helper and said : "Tony, there's a great future in this business. It's barely starting, and you're right on the ground floor with me." On the boss's advice, young S. W. ("Tony") Antoville, a Columbia University student, gave up his plans to go to law school, kept his job in the store and insured his future. As the U.S. Plywood Corp. (TIME, Sept. 25, 1950), Lawrence Ottinger's little store became the biggest...