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Some years ago the plain daughter of a wealthy Marseille dock contractor caught an engineer Count, married him, moved to Paris and set up a salon for journalists and politicians. Helene de Fortes was short, homely, plain, dark, nervous, jealous and not very bright; but she apparently had something for which Frenchmen would trade every grace. Widowed two years ago, she set her jib for a bright financier named Paul Reynaud. Soon Reynaud, who till then had been a good family man, separated from his wife. Under the administration of Georges Bonnet (then Minister of Justice) the divorce laws were...
...field is a good base for Navy or Army aircraft. It has no dry docks or major repair facilities. Disabled first-line battleships would have to go north to Norfolk or Philadelphia or pass through the Canal to Balboa for dry-dock repairs. In an emergency the Canal's locks could be used as dry docks...
...hook ranges east to Anegada Passage, between the Virgin Islands and the Leewards. Farther from major U. S. establishments, this defensive sector of the Caribbean is proportionately more vulnerable, but is currently being strengthened. Its strong points are Puerto Rico and St. Thomas. At San Juan a cruiser dock and naval workshop are in construction, and off San Juan Harbor at Isla Grande, a naval air base is being built. Completed, the U. S. defenses at Puerto Rico will also have the eastern striking force of the Army Air Corps, flying fortresses capable of operating more than 1,000 miles...
...outpost, completing the defense set-up of the hook. Its anchorages are deep and wide and its northwest coves would make good seaplane bases. Since it lies well within the U. S. sphere, the British have never developed it as a top-flight operating base. Its dry dock will accommodate nothing larger than destroyers, and it has no landplane base. Near by at Barbados the British have a battleship anchorage, a small airdrome and a tiny dry dock (too small for destroyers). At France's Martinique there is a small naval and submarine base, a destroyer dry dock...
Cincinnati heard another Carmen that night-on a showboat moored near the city's public dock. Captain Billy Bryant plies the Ohio River, playing melodramas straight for West Virginia hillbillies in the spring, pulling for sophisticated hisses and catcalls in Cincinnati in the summer. Raised on a showboat (his father, in his 80s, still plays in the family troupe), Captain Billy is a hard-voiced, articulate showman who wrote a book about the Bryants, sounds off on the theatre in the Sunday New York Times. He got the idea of doing Carmen long ago, when he found a Spanish...