Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pendant of Perpignan) and proceeded to found an importing business in Indo-China which soon hit the jack pot, permitting him to amass one of the world's most important private collections of Napoleonana. As a press officer in the Air Ministry in World War II. "Chariot" Brousse acquired the reputation of being the most prodigious wangler in Paris and gained the gratitude of all U. S. newsmen for his many feats of bypassing departmental red tape in their behalf...
...with 23 trunkloads of belongings, put them and his lovely Georgia-born wife in a car and trailer and drove all the way to Lisbon with a chauffeur who was under 40 and hence by terms of the armistice not supposed to be permitted outside France. Last week wangling Chariot Brousse brooked the first brake in a long and happy career...
HELL ON TRIAL-René Belbenoif-Dutton ($3). No Dreyfus, but an exceedingly tenacious gadfly, the famed fugitive of Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine) here adds further smelly details about life in the French penal colony. He also deals with allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their...