Word: vu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those U. S. citizens whose ears were reached by various versions of the London tale and who wondered why the U. S. Press did not rush to feature it were answered last week in the current number of Vu, weekly Parisian picture-paper. In its April 1 issue, Vu had devoted a full page to an account of the sextuplets' fabulous birth, pictured the six bouncing boys, told how Nestlé's milk had made them grow. When the last child was born, gay Mme Vicogne was reported to have said: "Let's call him 'Jean...
Gallic tongues in cheek, Vu's Publisher Lucien Vogel and Editor Philippe Boegner last week confessed that these sensations were no more authentic than the hoaxes annually perpetrated in the April Fool number of German Illustritre Zeitung (TIME, April 23, 1934). According to Vu, the Referee's gullible and light-fingered editors were not the only dupes of the sextuplet yarn, which had been illustrated with six views of the same infant. To an inquiring U. S. doctor, Vu solemnly replied that the six little boys now had a sister, born three months after the multiple delivery...
...Vu of Paris, M. Cedard supplied a royal garden party tea menu with characteristic corrections in Her Majesty's own hand. She struck off jam, thus making a double saving, since the omission greatly reduced her guests' appetite for bread & butter. Another saving Her Majesty shrewdly made possible by decreeing that ices should be served only if the afternoon proved extremely hot. Finally, though the Royal Family's own edibles are provided from the kitchens of Chef Cedard, their tea guests are fed by Lyons, cheapest London chain-store caterers...
Thrifty Frenchmen, famed for keeping their personal budgets meticulously balanced, have lately been angered, then amused by the French Treasury's "budget fantasies." Just how fantastic French finance has become was pictured in Paris' smart illustrated weekly Vu, copies of which reached the U. S. last week. Successively, as Vu points out, the French deficit for 1933 was estimated in November 1932 by Minister of the Budget Maurice Palmade at 12,100,000,000 francs; on Dec. 26 by Chairman of the Chamber's Finance Committee Lucien Lamoureux...
...every country and whom only politicians seem to know. Art dealers know him only as a man who has done many a job for the government and as a friend of the great French sculptor, Charles Despiau. Commenting last week on the new and old Mariannes, the French weekly Vu wrote...