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Back to Paris. In 1932 Couve married Jacqueline Schweisguth, the slim, brunette daughter of an Alsatian Protestant family related to the oil-rich Schlimbergers of Texas. Jacqueline's father was also an inspector of finances, but Couve protests it was "just a coincidence." Couve rose rapidly to become head of the external finance division of his ministry, but in 1943 he fled Vichy France and eventually joined De Gaulle in Algeria, where he became, in effect, the finance minister of the Free French. After serving on the Allied Consultative Council for Italy with Britian's Harold Macmillan...
...cover the African junket of Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. With the London Observer's Anthony Sampson, Wilde was arrested on the charge that he had tried to pass himself off as Chinese-which would have been a neat trick considering his entirely un-Sinic appearance. The inspector who picked him up was "charming, really charming," reported Wilde later. Less charming was the small, airless, bug-infested cell in which Wilde was stripped of all his clothes-even his glasses-and kept without food or water for 14 hours. "It was impossible to sleep," recalls Wilde. "In a cell...
...acting courses in the curriculum. The Loeb was, as I remember, originally to be run by three professionals: a director, a technician and a secretary. It opened in 1960 with seven professionals, adding a costume staff of two, an assistant director and a house manager. The program for the Inspector General, produced this season, listed ten professionals, including an assistant technical director, another costumer and an assistant house manager. The theater is a demanding hand craft with a healthy appetite for talented workers and cannot be compromised once the commitment of professionalism is made in a branch of that craft...
...Krabek, sanitary inspector for the Health Services, said at least 40 instances of severe diarrhea in the House have been reported. He has distributed questionnaires asking students to specify exactly what they ate on Saturday and Sunday and to describe their symptoms. After compiling this information, Krabek said the Health Services will inspect food quality, cooking utensils and other possible causes of the outbreak...
...Inspector General remains farce of the first order, replace vivid and translation and performance are wonderful; they are the major, but not the only reasons for funny show...