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...last four years in German-occupied Paris. She told them that the French had sealed up our old offices on the Champs Elysées until the authorities could find out what damage the Nazis had done-so Wert and Capa got a big room in the Hotel Scribe as temporary headquarters for themselves and the seven other correspondents on their way to Paris...
...room in the Hotel Scribe is huge, highceilinged, with Army bed rolls stacked in one corner and piles of Army rations in another. We have hot water only once or twice a week for an hour, so everybody tries to bathe and shave at the same time...
...Scribe basement an Army mess has been set up, which keeps bodies and souls joined but leaves us completely unsatisfied. (The chef has managed to destroy the old myth that you can give a Frenchamn even Army rations and he will make something tasty out of them.) But the Café de la Paix is just around the corner and gets a good deal of our trade...
...Wert , Capa and I live at Lancaster - Mary Welsh is at the Ritz - others are bivouacking at the Grand Hotel. But we all get together at the Hotel Scribe, and almost any morning you can see Wert, Capa, Walton, Welsh and Landry lined up at the rail of the balcony planning the day's operations...
Montparnasse's three famed cafes-the Dome, the Rotonde, the Coupole-were doing business as usual under their striped awnings, although they closed during the street fighting. The supply of painted filles seemed ample to accommodate all soldiers interested in amour. In the Rue Scribe the American Express office still had its familiar big sign on the roof. The hotels were comfortably appointed, with plenty of linen and blankets, even satin quilts...