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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above all to one political tenet: the infallibility of General Charles de Gaulle. In 1946. when De Gaulle first called for constitutional reform, twice-wounded Resistance Fighter Delbecque rushed around northern France inveighing against the constitution of the Fourth Republic. "Actually," he recalled last week, "I had never even read the constitution. I was against it because De Gaulle said...
...profit margins have always been as thin as newsprint. With the merger, the U.P. eliminated a pesky competitor, increased its domestic clientele by some 120 daily newspapers to a total around 950 (v. the A.P.'s 1,243), will have "available" the services of such well-read I.N.S. byliners as Bob Considine, Ruth Montgomery and Louella Parsons, who will remain on the Hearst payroll. There was no question about who was taking over whom. U.P. will control 75% of U.P.I.'s stock, and U.P. President Frank H. Bartholomew will become president of the new agency...
Wooing the Advertiser. This look-and-leap makeup has one virtue, at least to business-office eyes. "It makes the reader go through the entire paper," argues one official. "We can tell an advertiser that every one of our pages is well read." Wooing the advertiser further, Boston papers zealously cover every ribbon-cutting ceremony in the city. But no real attempt is made to cover the city's constant flow of major educational, scientific and medical stories. Deskmen often fumble major stories; e.g., one paper ran Russia's first A-bomb explosion below the fold...
...stock exchanges last week. In London, trading was the heaviest in 3½ years, and prices climbed to the highest in nine months. Canada had a flurry in low-priced gold shares. In Wall Street, where gold shares have steadily climbed in the past year, Investment Bankers Dillon, Read let out that they are forming an investment trust ($30 million to start) to buy South African gold shares, thus adding another fillip to the London buying...
...will do you French all the harm I can." So said the pint-sized (5 ft. 2 in.), pale-faced Corsican named Buonaparte, who shunned his military schoolmates, read Plutarch in the library instead of playing games. Classmate Louis de Bourrienne also had the luck to be standing with 23-year-old Napoleon, then an out-at-the-elbow discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should...