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Eight white-haired members of the French Academy buzzed with discreet excitement last week. In 17 years of meeting between the hours of 2 and 5 every Friday afternoon, carrying on Cardinal Richelieu's instructions to keep the French language pure, they had finished their revision of the As for the ninth edition of the French dictionary, were about to add a new word to the Bs. They agreed that "béquet" ("Printing term. Word or sentence added to correct text.") is now an acceptable French word. Their decision was sent on to the full, 40-man academy...
...writers have given more for less money. Of Belloc's 100-odd volumes of prose and poetry (the first, Verses and Sonnets, was published in 1895) only two or three have been bestsellers. Such books as The Path to Rome, Richelieu, Marie Antoinette, and Cautionary Verses still sell well enough for Belloc to be able to drink good French wine. But the slight look of shabbiness about his 15th Century Sussex house, King's Land, shows the slimness of the owner's purse. The furnishings of the old house have been neither changed nor moved since...
That night the Gestapo arrested Comte Bernard de La Rochefoucauld, descendant of François Due de La Rochefoucauld, Cardinal de Richelieu's great rival. Next morning the Germans picked up Yvonne before she could escape to England...
...Quoting Richelieu and Shakespeare, Carnegie coached his 37-year-old protégé Charles M. Schwab on how to handle Morgan. In December 1900 at a private dinner, with Morgan among the guests, Schwab made a speech on the vast opportunities that lay ahead of American business. He said: "For instance, there is in the U.S. no one plant making steel cars exclusively. Instead of having one mill make ten, 20 or 50 products, why not have one mill make one product, and that continuously?" Morgan's imagination caught fire. He cornered the willing Schwab after dinner. Morgan...
...League eleven: Rodney Scheffer, Brown, goalie; Jim Blozie, Conn., rfb; Arluido Jorge, Mass., lfb; John Hogan, Springfield, rhb; Drake, chb; John Dunbar, Amherst, lhb; Carlos Fetterolf, Conn., or; Weiss, ir; George Cleveland, Conn., c; Richelieu Morris, Tufts, il; and Merritt Baldwin, Conn...