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Teen-agers on the streets of New Orleans' Vieux Carré can still remember when their pal Willie Pastrano was a fat little five-foot butterball, the butt of all their jokes. Lately they have stopped laughing. Stretched out to his full growth (5 ft. 11 in., 181¾ lbs.), Willie, at 19, has toughened into one of the most promising heavyweight fist fighters since laughing Billy Conn came within a couple of rounds of whipping Joe Louis...
Died. Owen E. Brennan, 45, New Orleans restaurateur, owner of Brennan's Vieux Carre restaurant (a three-hour breakfast at $9.45), and the Latin Quarter landmark across the street, the Old Absinthe House (founded c. 1805); of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
...crazy and sick," said one. "There's no telling what he'll do." Added another: "The Neo-Destour is a fascist movement. Today their line is cooperation with us. But soon they'll start getting rid of their enemies. First it will be the Vieux Destour (nationalist extremists), then the Jews, then the French. All this enthusiasm has been a victory for France's policy. But it must stop at internal autonomy...
Yvette Guilbert (Angel LP). Paris' grand old (1865-1944) Chanteuse Guilbert rasps a few of her naughty ditties in pre-LP French. Titles: Le Fiacre, Partie Carrée, L'Eloge des Vieux...
Like a Gypsy. Records are expensive in France, but some of Bechet's are top sellers at about 30,000-100,000 copies each. Among his titles: As-Tu le Cafard? (Have You Got the Blues?) and Mets ton Vieux Bonnet Gris (Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet...