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Figaro keeps on intimate terms with its status-conscious readers by publishing a column called Le Carnet du Jour, a listing of all the births, marriages and deaths of those who count in French society. "You're not really married if it hasn't been noted in Figaro," is a familiar quip. A 37-year-old boulevardier and gossip columnist named Philippe Bouvard cruises Paris in a Citroen equipped with television and a telephone. As he picks up tips, he phones any of 15 legmen and women to follow them up. "Before, only a name was enough," says...
Local Touch. Along with the Narodny bank, which also has a highly successful Middle East branch in Beirut, the Russians operate the Banque Commerciale pour 1'Europe du Nord in Paris. Founded in 1921 by expatriate White Russians, the B.C.E.N.-as Parisians call it-was sold to the Communist government in 1925, has since become a major Paris bank and has assets of $624 million. Like the new Wozchod bank in Switzerland, the B.C.E.N. operates with a mainly local board; the president is Guy de Boysson, 45, a French nobleman who once held Communist Party membership...
...acre Maine-Montparnasse project-named for two bordering streets, Avenue du Maine and Boulevard du Montparnasse-involves four French architects, eight of France's largest contracting and building-materials companies, five French banks and three corporations that may become tenants...
...Kelso, winner of an alltime record $1,977,896 before his retirement last March, was as gentle as a lamb. Kids fed him sugar; a chocolate sundae would cheer him up if he'd lost a race; and everybody loved him so much that his owner, Mrs. Richard du Pont, gave him a mailbox at the barn to handle all the fan letters. Now nine, the magnificent gelding is taking his ease, jogging around Mrs.du Font's Maryland farm, treating her to early-morning canters like any other saddle horse...
...little bears got into short-selling just in time to be badly hurt; they had to scramble quickly as the averages rose to cover short positions in both glamour stocks and blue chips. As a result, both highflyers and such long-dull blue chips as A.T. & T., Chrysler, Du Pont, Jersey Standard and U.S. Steel were traded unusually heavily, and most ended the week with a gain...