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Chief obstruction this time is Vial, youngish interior decorator, whose cottage neighbors Colette's on the Mediterranean shore. Here she has retired with her dog. her cats to watch the hours pass of her declining day. Swimming parties, summer diversions with her neighbors fill whatever gaps tending her animals, her garden, or her memories may leave. But Vial...
...Vial attends the swimming parties, picnics, too. Always in his background hovers young Helene Clement, whom he, to his distaste, infatuates. Helene, a green girl helpless, appeals to older, infinitely wiser Colette. She does her woman's best to forward the affair. But the affair won't go forward: it is Colette whom Vial loves. She knows it, will not admit it until there is nothing else to do. After two summers of perfect prenuptial flying, Vial goes back to his Paris shop, apparently to stay. Helene Clement will see to that. Colette takes Vial's departure...
...small President Leguia has not only made enemies of hundreds of old Peruvian families, by confiscation of their ancient estates, distributing their land to Indians, but he has made enemies of the Indians by forcing them into virtual slavery through his road-building campaign. By the law of Conscription Vial (road conscription) all Peruvians must work two weeks a year on Peruvian highways. Moneyed Peruvians evade the road gangs by paying a highway tax, so do other Peruvians who have friends in office. Indians who have neither money nor influence must work on the roads not only for the legal...
Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo...
...hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the way. In the store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley at a confectioner...