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Though they wept for their ships, Frenchmen felt proud. For in its first and last encounter with the Germans, France's Fleet had given meaning to the words of General Charles de Gaulle: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost...
Franz Josef a necklace of cameos; King Umberto of Italy a fan. Wrote Victor Hugo after Sarah's performance in his play, Hernani: "I wept. That tear ... is yours." He enclosed a tear-shaped diamond...
...Maugham. As usual on such occasions, rumors were plentiful. The one picked up by those "who are in a position to know," was that he had to catch a plane "somewhere." They say that the animal who has given rides to so many celebrities in the famous Advocate barouche wept bitter tears, took a slug of the punch, and promptly died...
...Hope, who flew 16,000 miles on his Alaska junket, took along Jerry ("Mustache") Colonna and Singer Frances Langford. "They never went rough on Frances," he said. "But a few of them took a look at her and wept in their hands." He added: "I guess you can take care of sex with saltpeter. But you can't keep a man from reading his mother into any girl who shows up in a spot like that...
Meanwhile a mysterious fact about the problem emerged from the mountains of testimony heaped before the long-suffering Small Business Committee last week: though for more than a year one war agency after another has wept and cried "Wolf" about how many little men were about to fold up because of the war, so far the agencies set up to "save" small business have shown much less staying power than their proteges. All the experts had to admit last week that no one yet knew the score on "business mortality," but what little they did know made it seem little...