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...members of the crowd had brought firearms. Up bustled local Communist Boss Maurice Honel of the arrondissement, showing the police his card as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, demanding: "You must permit the citizens of Clichy to form a procession to demonstrate in front of this thea tre!" Keeping steady, the police commander refused him such permission. At this, citizens of Clichy began flinging paving stones, empty bottles and a little fierce rioting began with brawny wenches active in baiting police to "strike a woman." By now the crowd was swelling to an ultimate 10,000 and something...
...Simpson . . . authorized him only to publish a portrait in words of herself with the object of rectifying many fantastic reports concerning her person ally. Therefore Mrs. Simpson noted with amazement that the actual articles far exceeded in scope any possible portrait in words. . . . She has retained Maître Armand Grégoire, Paris attorney, to defend her interests." Attorney Gregoire was reported considering suits for fat libel against such mass newsorgans as Paris-Soir and Corricre della Sera of Milan, which had car ried the Noyes articles after their U. S. publication. Mrs. Simpson had been discussing them with...
...anyone who had a desire to own a large morning newspaper and $15,000,000 in cash. Mr. Annenberg had both. Forthwith he sent one of the five Annenberg sons-in-law to Paris to dicker with the Inquirer's socialite owners, Mme Eleanore Elverson Paternõtre and her sleek son Raymond, onetime Undersecretary of State for National Economy, member of the Chamber of Deputies and publisher of the Paris Petit Journal. Last week the deal went through. From his modest Manhattan offices, Purchaser Annenberg announced that he was taking over active control of the Inquirer at once...
Philadelphia's oldest morning daily, the Inquirer was founded in 1829 and bought by Colonel James Elverson 60 years later. Colonel Elverson's daughter, an international belle, married French Ambassador Jules Paternõtre in the 1890's, inherited the Inquirer at her brother's death in 1929, sold it within a year to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and his stepson-in-law John C. Martin for part cash, part credit...
...Papal Legate Teodoro Lelli, Bishop of Treviso, accompanied the Lord Bishop of Ostia on a mission to the court of Louis XI of France. There the Legate was sketched by the court artist, Maître Jean Foucquet, who etched his subject's fleshy, self-assured features in silverpoint on a small piece of cream-colored paper. Last week, at Christie, Manson & Woods's famed London salesrooms ("Christie's''), this little picture was auctioned off to Lord Duveen of Millbank, world's No. 1 art agent...