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Died. Louis D. Beaumont, 85, cofounder of the May Department Stores chain; in Manhattan. He retired 30 years ago, spent most of his time on the French Riviera and in Paris. He organized and financed one of the first round-the-world flights, set up the Wilbur Wright monument at Le Mans...
...days Leslie Hore-Belisha, who used to take his holidays on the Riviera, immersed himself in the Cistercian routine. He rose at 2 a.m. for the night offices in the Abbey's austere white chapel. He assisted at Matins, Lauds, Prime Terce, High Mass, Nones, Vespers, Complin. Among white-habited monks he worked on the farm, helping to cut and shock corn. He watched the monks weave cloth, bake bread, bind manuscripts, work at sculpture and wood carving. He shared their single daily vegetarian meal...
...Bullitt, a dashing young liberal, who went with the late Lincoln Steffens on a special mission to Moscow for President Wilson later in the same year. It was Bullitt, too, who said after the Paris Peace Conference that he was going to the Riviera "to lie on the sand and watch the world go to hell." The world did not go to hell, and in 1933 Bullitt was back in Russia as the first U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. He left three years later with a sour taste in his mouth...
...late Edith Wharton's richly furnished villa at Hyères on the Riviera will be sold at public auction next month...
Thrown in with a colony of immigrants who live about fifty feet south of the border waiting for papers into the U.S., Boyer finds he's there to stay because of immigration quotas, far from the sparkling matrons of the New York - Miami set he is pursuing from the Riviera. The only way he can crash the land of silk and honey is to marry an American girl, so disguising his evil design with sulfurous similes and purple passion, he dazzles the dewey-eyed teacher from a sticks town in the States and wins her with a round-the-clock...