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...Monsieur and Madame Poissonard are a modest little Parisian couple who keep a modest little dairy shop called An Bon Beurre. In 1950 the Poissonards have 47 million francs, a garish apartment, a country estate, and a son-in-law who is a member of parliament. The shortest distance between these two points is crooked-and savagely funny. French Satirist Jean (A Dog's Head) Dutourd has lampooned not only war profiteers but France itself, a country which has earned more justly than England, the reputation of being "a nation of shopkeepers...
...Mama Poissonard and family seem no better off than anyone else Papa is built like a beer barrel and Mama like a bathtub, but they do have a nose for news, and word reaches them within a week that the Germans are most "correct." They race back to the Bon Beurre, to do a little business-as-usual...
...beings too," says Julie (mama). Julie, who met Charles-Hubert at a bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels of Gruyere and slabs of Cantal cheeses, "the mighty pillars of this Temple of Foresight." Rationing is declared, and Julie...
...matches were held to qualify teams for the League finals at B.U. this Saturday. High scorer for the Crimson was John Leness who made 280 out of 300 points. Rounding out the top five men were Bon Dane with 277, John Liebeskind with 274, Evan Spelfogel with 273, and captain John Hessel with...
...Middle number one, Myron Ricketts, upset Bon Hecksher, 7-15, 15-12, 10-15, 15-11, 15-14, in the tightest match of the day. The loss was Hocksher's second in four days, as he lost to former world champion Henri Salaun Thursday in the finals of the state championship...