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...campaign wound up, hot & heavy, so did the interest of the electorate. At Clermont-Ferrand, M.R.P. War Minister Edouard Michelet was urging hard-headed Auvergnats to vote no when Communist Deputy Jean Curabet, who had been razzing him from the audience, leaped onto the platform and clipped him on the chin. Curabet then seized the speaker's carafe and emptied it on the head of stunned Minister Michelet-a teetotaler, but not that partial to water. At this point a young woman jumped onto the platform and went at Communist Curabet with her fists. Reported the semiofficial news agency...
...hard-rock miner insists that he personally saw his mother-in-law, stone deaf for years, recover her hearing. Clermont Roy, who says he saw two crippled children fully cured by the girl, claims that his own eight-year-old son, mute since birth, began to talk after visiting Pierrette. Said Mme. Philippe Coulombe: "I have just taken 20 steps down the street, when for a long time I have not been able to take two steps in my kitchen without my crutches...
...Munich, dumping a record bomb load of 3,360 tons. On the day before that, U.S. day-flying bombers from Britain had attacked Brunswick. On the day after, the U.S. heavies struck again, this time at Augsburg and Ulm. After dark the R.A.F. swarmed out again, to Amiens and Clermont-Ferrand. Next day the U.S. punch fell on Vienna; at night the R.A.F. attacked Sofia...
...they didn't. Robert Taylor had it. His wife Mehitabel and their children - five of the eleven were less than twelve years old - followed him by wagon. Mehitabel drove the wagon. Before she left New York she made the maiden trip up the Hudson on Fulton's Clermont. When she reached the Ohio wilderness the first thing she told Robert was of the wonders of the first commercial steamboat...
...Madame Absalom, who kept the yarn shop, avidly scanned the local press of Clermont-Ferrand every day "in gleeful anticipation of the demise of her 'ex,' as she called him. . . ." He suffered from rheumatism and a facial tic which she could imitate to perfection...