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Roly-poly, voluble Jean François Pouliot loves to talk & talk. Like his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather before him, he is a member of the House of Commons. He once talked Tory Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett into giving his home town (Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) a new railroad station. Another time he talked his party (Liberal) into building a dock on an unnavigable stream. In four sessions he addressed Parliament 471 times...
...misnamed Radical Socialists, were often joined by the Socialists after the collapse of the Popular Front (TIME, April 18, 1938). Last week new Premier Reynaud boldly slapped down a Cabinet list containing three Socialists: Minister of Justice Albert Serol, Minister of Blockade Georges Monnet, Minister of Pensions Albert Rivi...
...Governor Duplessis-Bochard of Trois Rivieres, Canada, sortied too far from his stockade and lost his scalp to Iroquois. Last week one of the indiscreet Governor's most indiscreet descendants, another restless inhabitant of Trois Riviéres, Quebec's Conservative Premier Maurice Duplessis, lost his political scalp in an overwhelming rout...
When aging Actor St. Clair (Jouvet) leaves his troupe after an unsuccessful tour, he says he is going to retire to his estates, but his companions know that he is really going to the Abbaye de St. Rivière, baven for indigent old actors. Greeted there as a hero, surrounded by old women who were once his lovers, St. Clair also meets embittered Marny (Victor Francen), who has been obsessed for years by the suspicion that his wife killed herself after St. Clair tired of her. When St. Clair attempts to renew his youth by captivating a simple-minded...
...Flight, a second novel, is a brief account of disaster on the South American airmail. Fabien, carrying the mail from the far South to Buenos Aires, flies through a golden twilight in which "night was rising like a tawny smoke." Presently the evening becomes less calm. At the airport, Rivière, "who was responsible for the entire service," waits anxiously for Fabien and two other mail planes to arrive. Rivière's aim is to "love the men under your orders but do not let them know it." Cold hostility for the minor inefficiencies that...