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...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...
...royal sunbathers side by side with photos of their flooded countrymen. A quick return and a tour of the worst-hit areas hardly helped at all, for Baudouin caught cold and flew back to the Riviera. Returning to Brussels, he gave a parting interview to the Parisian France Soir and was quoted as saying: "It is Belgian unity itself that is being attacked through the attacks on the royal family...
France's dwindling Communist Party, scrabbling for funds, decided that it could no longer support two daily newspapers in Paris. Ce Soir once (1946) had more circulation (602,000) than any other French paper of the time, but of late it had sunk to a lowly 80,000. L'Humanité, the morning paper, was also sharply down, but "L'Huma" is the certified mouthpiece of Communism in France. Last week Ce Soir announced that it was going out of business. Its editor, Author & Poet Louis Aragon, had an explanation of sorts: "American pressure . . . and the boycott...
...first publicly shown last week, came the first evidence that the bet might pay off. Alongside the fanciest cars of Europe and 20 U.S. makes, the Studebaker was the sensation of the show. "Revolutionary," "spectacular," "beautiful," reported the press. Said Roger Darteyre, auto reporter of Le Soir, Belgium's largest daily, and technical expert for the Belgian Royal Automobile Club: "The Studebaker is the best thing America has done in low suspension ... So far as construction and design are concerned, it's the foremost achievement among American cars...
...question & answer column, the Paris newspaper France Soir was asked: "Would you tell me what the American national anthem is and by whom composed and at what epoch?" The paper's answer: "The American national anthem was composed at the end of the last century, by John Philip Sousa . . . was called The Stars and Stripes Forever...