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...couples met in a huge Left Bank apartment. They had foregathered to practice the latest Parisian intellectual pretension-intimatism. Present were the high priest of the movement, dynamic René Sébille, 34, and some of his ardent disciples. The men were journalists and writers. The girls were young and pretty...
...René Sébille is one of those unusual men who can scratch his right ear with the middle ringer left hand held behind his back (see cut). In general, his life has been unusual. He has been an errand boy, a bellhop, an elevator operator, a metal worker, a mechanic, an artilleryman. In Venice and Brussels he was a gigolo. In Fezzan he trafficked in arms. During this time, Sébille escaped two attempts on his life and took part in three major riots. Hit by German shrapnel at Rethel in 1940, Sébille was taken...
Most of the way through Belgium and down to the Riviera, then through the Basque country and up to Brittany, the leader was Frenchman René Vietto, the favorite. But on the tough St. Brieuc-Caen lap, a countryside which U.S. troops also found tough going three years ago, Vietto tired. Almost half of the entrants had dropped out. Up moved Italian Pierre Brambilla and Breton Jean Robic...
Face Lifter. Extremely shy, Mrs. Dodge had no liking for publicity. One of the few times her name appeared in print was in 1926, when she spent $50,000 backing a French flyer and famed War I ace, Captain René Fonck, in a transatlantic flight that never came off. Another was in 1930, when she paid a record-high fine of $213,286 for failing to declare the full value of trunksful of clothes and jewelry that she brought home from France. She was still largely unknown when in 1938 a U.S. Treasury report showed...
...Died. René Kraus, 46, able Austrian émigré journalist, biographer (Winston Churchill, The Men Around, Churchill) and onetime politico (in Schuschnigg's pre-Anschluss "inner Cabinet"); after long illness; in Amityville...