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Died. Jules Chéret, 96, famed French illustrator, tapestry designer, lithographer, commander of the Legion of Honor; at Nice, France...
Premier Pierre Laval of France showed friends a copy of TIME with its story about him as "man of the year" (TIME, Jan. 4). When he proudly pointed out the observation that his surname spells itself backward, Leon Noel, new head of the Sûreté Générale, cried: "I'll double you. Chief...
McCALL PATE. Lieut. U.S.N. (Ret.) Bennettsville...
...direct contrast were the events of last week. Scarcely had Mr. Hearst arrived at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, after a month of travel in Germany and Italy's lake country, when an officer of the Sûreté Général (Secret Service) visited him with a request from the Ministry of Interior to vacate the country within 36 hours. Publisher Hearst spurned the day's grace, took the afternoon boat-train for London. Next day the French Premier explained that the expulsion had its origin in the famed Horan affair...
...Guèret loved Angèle but at first he excited only her contempt with his tactlessness, her pity with his distress, her amused indifference with his bitter glumness at her lack of response, her fear with his broad but bent shoulders. "Naturally she had no illusions about what the man wanted, but by a monstrous caprice of her nature she resolved to refuse him everything because he did not despise her." She retreated in rage when he guessed her occupation...