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When the Faure cabinet fell last February, Pinay trotted off as usual to the Gare de Lyon. He was on the way back from St. Chamond a few days later when a messenger clambered into his compartment at Dijon with President Auriol's invitation to take a fling at forming a government. He had the brashness...
Sickly little Gilbert Godard, a grocer's assistant, did not impress his neighbors in Chaumont (near Dijon) as the kind of man who might make a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin at Lourdes. Twice married, once divorced, he had never been seen at Mass. Nonetheless, it looked to a lot of pious folk in Chaumont last week as if Gilbert Godard, pilgrim to Lourdes, had been granted a miracle...
Launched with all the fanfare of a War Bond drive, Pinay's gold bond issue brought 17 tons of hoarded gold into the Paris treasury coffers in the first four days. At Dijon a man who wouldn't give his name traded in gold ingots worth 75 million francs (approx. $214,000). The bond issue had to pull in 400 to 500 billion francs to be a success. Pinay, who plans to use the money to finance war reconstruction projects, beamed as the returns came in; he was once again proving himself France's most resourceful Premier...
Businessman's Flyer. Antoine Pinay, 60, was on a Paris-bound train when the stationmaster at Dijon handed him President Auriol's telegram inviting him to try his hand at forming a cabinet. Pinay, an Independent Republican, had never considered himself a likely Premier. With his neat crinkly hair, his long thin face, glasses, and his trim little mustache, he looked just what he was: a small-town French businessman...
Through the streets of Dijon, France last week, two days before Christmas, paraded a troupe of boys & girls bearing an 8-ft. effigy of the French Santa Claus, Pére Noél. Before Dijon's cathedral the marchers halted, and one of their number stepped out and addressed the others: "What shall we do with...