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...Drink. At party after party, lean young lordlings were kicking up their heels with the debutante daughters of wealthy tradesmen. It was all high spirits and higher expense accounts. For the showiest party of all, an army of some 60 technicians was called in to transform the ballroom at Claridge's into a moonlit garden so that young Countess "Bunny" Esterhazy and "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith could meet society in proper style. Their parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success...
...haired wife, her typewriter propped on a suitcase beside the bed. Before he is dressed, cars come honking down a narrow street usually disturbed only by the clump of a cart or a delivery boy's whistle, and men in leather coats and caps, or in ill-fitting tradesmen's suits, knock on the door of the big red brick house. A grocer who is now a Deputy of France lets them in, where they find their leader munching on a breakfast of bread and a tangerine...
Answer to Body Snatchers. As the towns began to grow, the tradesmen began to chase the corpses. Before long advertisements like that of Z. Cotton & Son of Cambridge, N.Y. ("Dentists. Undertakers. Picture Frames a Speciality") were a common sight. Sometimes the commercial combinations had a sinister sound as in the case of one Hollis Chaffin of Providence, R.I., an undertaker who ran an old folks' home on the side...
...disciplined," boasts young, demagogic Pierre Poujade. "If I tell these people to take one step forward, they'll take one step forward; one step backward, and they'll take one step backward." For 19 months Poujade has been telling French tradesmen and artisans who are his followers to defy tax collectors and run them out of town (TIME, Jan. 3). Last week he told them to follow him to Paris for a demonstration of strength...
...famed for keeping two sets of records, one to run their businesses by, the other to show the tax collector) declared an average net profit of only $89 a month in 1952, whereas even office employees received an average $104 a month. "A presumption of fraud weighs heavily on tradesmen and artisans," said the government. But in southern and southwestern France, unabashed Poujade vigilantes went right on chasing tax collectors down the roads, mobbing police and defying troops assigned to escort them. Even as Poujade boasted that his movement had swelled to 800,000 members and was spreading to other...