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...Barbara Ann Scott, one "P.B.," writing in the obscure Le Bonheur of Trois Rivières, Que., had kind words: "I am ready to believe that this young girl is a model of virtue, modesty, discretion and grace." But for Barbara Ann's clothes and capers, and for figure-skating in general, fuddy-duddy "P.B." had only scorn. Last week L'Action Catholique, official mouthpiece of Quebec's Roman Catholic archdiocese, picked up his words, gave them wide (circ. 83,000) circulation...
...food market for her sharpness of tongue, spoke for them all when she said: "Ça, va mal chez moi, comme partout" ("Things are tough at home, and tough all over"). Said Jacques Rumpert, a petit bourgeois like millions of others, who runs a typewriter repair shop at Montparnasse: "Que voulez-vous? I worked hard all my life. My aim was to have a house, with a small garden by the Seine, so I could fish. All that is out now, ... I am not a Gaullist. I'm not a member of the 'Third Force...
Waving requisition slips, the agents moved into the slaughterhouses. Angry butchers spat out the question: "Qu'est-ce que c'est, cette fois?" ("Now what?"). In a few minutes the entire day's stock of meat at La Villette had been bought by the government and resold to the butchers at officially fixed prices. All day agents of the Contrôle Economique moved about Paris, to see that the newly pegged meat prices were respected...
Then Schuman buckled down to work out something really stiff. At 10 a.m. last Saturday he bustled into the Assembly carrying a black briefcase. What was in it? someone asked. Said M. Schuman: "Vous verrez ce que vous verrez" (wait and see). What the Assembly saw amazed it; nothing so strong had been expected. What the Communists saw goaded them to a maniac pitch of fury...
...handwriting on the wall just in time. He asked to be sent to Poland; the party also sent Etienne Fajon, a Marty man, to watch him. For Thorez, there was literally handwriting on a wall last week. Scrawled outside Pere Lachaise Cemetery were the words Adieu, Maurice Thorez. Que Dieu ait son dme (May God have his soul), Marty's tough line will lose voters, but it will free the party from any inhibitions it might have in attacking the Marshall Plan...