Word: soir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wives and a streamlined harem, it was open season on his past in the French press. The government had deposed him for his anti-French activities and his flirtation with Moroccan nationalists. First came stories showing how he had played with the Nazis during the war. Last week France-Soir, the largest daily in Paris (circ. 955,600) broke an exposé of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef as a "bloody, sadistic Bluebeard." Among France-Soir's sensational charges...
Knowledgeable French sources say that France-Soir's stories, though sometimes embellished, are essentially true. Some relatives of the dead victims, demanding blood money, have launched complaints in Casablanca, and an investigation has been started. Ben Youssef's implacable Berber enemy, the old Pasha of Marrakech, is supposed to have had a hand in spreading the stories. The French Foreign Office professes to be horrified. Digging up old tales about him at this time, said a Quai d'Orsay spokesman properly, is "not fair play...
...responsible critic in France would get far enough out on a limb to credit any of Gauguin's Tahitian grandchildren with having inherited their grandfather's genius.* But France-Soir, yielding to a temptation to sentimentalize, proclaimed that the children's efforts "revealed striking gifts that only heredity could explain...
...wreck the French Communist Party. Since the buoyant days of 1946, 1) party membership has been almost halved; 2) Communist support in the powerful C.G.T. labor organization is only a quarter of what it was; 3) the circulation of L'Humanité is down two-thirds; Ce Soir and half a dozen provincial dailies have folded. The party still has an elite of probably 30,000 hard-core Communists, but the rank & file have been gravely affected by the Moscow damning of two of their great heroes: Old Communist Andre Marty and World War II Resistance Leader Charles Tillon...
...opening, she cried: "Imagine! They're paying me all this money to do the things I do at parties for free!" She is famous in Hollywood for her ability to clown a dying party back on to its feet. Loretta Young recalls that at many a fading soirée, Ros has come up to her and urged: "Oh, let's save it! What can we think up?" (One gathering got off to a bright start when Ros and Loretta appeared as the Toni Twins.) Van Johnson's wife Evie says: "I don't think...