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...Crespin's list. Best-sellers are the Maurois book, 15,000 copies; Jules Romains's rather naive Sept Mystères du Destin de l'Europe, 9,000; Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre, 8,000; Robert Coffin's Le Roi des Beiges, atil Trahi?, 4,000. Scheduled for publication soon are books by Maritain (on Saint Paul), Emil Ludwig (on German history), Stefan Zweig (on Brazil). He has published new novels by Romains and Julian Green...
Said a Vichy captain to Correspondent Peters during Beirut's siege: "Nous nous battons pour le Roi de Prusse" (We are fighting for the King of Prussia...
Died. William Harrison ("Sparrow") Robertson, veteran gossip columnist of the Paris Herald; at Bois-le-Roi, France...
...doctors had hoped they had ordered: the library of Sigmund Freud. Most of the books were marked with his rubber stamp or signature. Among the items: Freud's medical-school texts; eleven rare volumes of Mesmerism (alone worth more than $500); a privately printed volume for "Le Roi de France" on animal magnetism (value...
...Hopetoun and Baron Hope. Last week the House of Commons officially gave up hope that during a Nazi Blitzkrieg the India Office in London could continue to run India by cable and radio remote control. Only thing to do was to make the Viceroy in effect not only Roi but also Dictator over 350,000,000 people. This the House of Commons...