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Doubts of le Peré Noël. Gallic skepticism had not gone to sleep. Henri Clery, 48, who rents boats on the Seine at the St. Cloud bridge, scratched his unshaven chin. "It seems too good to be true," he said. "But does Mr. Marshall really speak for all Americans? You know, I stopped believing in le peré Noël a long time...
...defendant wore a brilliant red and yellow checked shirt, khaki riding breeches and knee-high, shining black boots. A long mane flowed down his back from the heights of his domed head; a vast, bushy beard descended from his chin to his chest. He entered the tiny courtroom in Paris' august Palais de Justice reclining on a stretcher...
...Junior Davis was more than just a crack football back. In West Point's difficult Master of the Sword test (it includes chin-ups, rope-climb, vertical jump, softball throw) he broke the Academy record with 926½ points. In basketball, Davis was a good forward; in baseball, a talented centerfielder. Wise Branch Rickey has said that Davis was worth $75,000 to any big-league baseball club. Two weeks ago, after finishing a baseball game against Navy, Davis hurried across the campus to help out Army's track team (he broke the 220-yd. Army and meet...
Winchell's chin-chopper column is the chief attraction of a curious new daily paper, the U.S. Journal, which made its first appearance this week. The Journal is about the size, shape and glossiness of Vogue but has only eight pages, costs a dime, and expects to break even if it sells only 10,000 copies. It is edited by Edward Maher, until recently the editor of Liberty. Maher hopes to cram the Journal with backdoor stuff, chitchat and personality stories. Says he: "When the other papers are covering 'big' developments, we'll be working behind...
Above all, Hangchow is now a place where many a statesman seeks surcease from the slings and arrows of partisanship. T. V. Soong rested here recently and even the Gimo stopped over on his way back toward the haggle of Government reorganization. Five hundred years ago, Hsieh Chin wrote...