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...actor and a barman-they're brothers!" Maugin says. "Both of them live on other people's vices . . ." That is Maugin's record. At 14, he ran away from his home in the provinces with five sous in his pocket. The money was blackmail, squeezed out of a schoolboy pal whom he had caught raping his sister. Women paid his way more directly in Paris. An adoring prostitute kept him in meals and clothes; a mousy ingenue housed him (he left her pregnant); a nymphomaniac stage star married him and later took an overdose of morphine after...
...infield to watch Europe's richest horse race, the Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe. Despite devaluation, the mile-and-a-half event for three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players plumped for Textile Millionaire Marcel Boussac...
...Sablon songs as Le Fiacre, the success story of a married woman and her lover. As they are driving about, their coach accidentally runs over the husband, who has been secretly tailing them. The wife looks out, observes: "Splendid, Léon, it's my husband. . . . Give 100 sous to the coachman...
...Normandy shrine of Ste. Thérèse de 1'Enfant Jésus. As a young girl she sang in the Paris streets, a tiny, birdlike creature who clasped her hands behind her and fixed her eyes on the heavens. A friend gathered up the sous which she was too proud to pick up herself...
...stirring story of an escape from the Nazis, is the first to be published in liberty, the first to omit the defiant inscription of its predecessors: "Ce volume, publié aux dépens de quelques lettrés patriotes, a été achevé d'imprimer sous l'oppression a Paris" ("This book, published with the aid of certain patriots of literature, has been printed under the oppression in Paris...