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...finally made my way to Paris. The war broke out; I was handed a gas mask and told to go to Bordeaux for my American visa. Months later I escaped to London. Then, exactly on the dot, two years after applying, I received my American immigration visa. I arrived in Manhattan at night and immediately went to a friend who lived near Inwood Park. At dawn I rushed to the window to see the skyscrapers. I saw only the park's rocks, trees, squirrels and blue-jays. I decided then and there that I was going to like...
...Nice, where the infrequent clouds have a bright blue-and-silver lining, the city fathers spent 50,000,000 francs ($419,800) to put as amusing a face as possible on France's current history. One giant mask in this year's annual carnival (see cut) represented the 1940 German knockout blow, another Occupation's heavy hand, a third the joys and hopes of Liberation. A fourth was labeled "OŁ va t'on?" (Where do we go from here?). That one symbolized the France which last week teetered ominously between fresh hope and fresh danger...
...weeks ago, Joe's handlers, unable to find him someone to fight, got to thinking of all the unexplored territory outside the U.S. where people might pay just to see Joe flex his muscles. Joe put on his best deadpan mask for the benefit of strangers, and headed for Latin America. At Mexico City, in an exhibition, he carefully pulled his punches for ten rounds against Arturo Godoy, who had once lasted 15 rounds in the ring against Joe. Both got booed (fans who knowingly pay to see an "exhibition" hopefully expect to see a fight...
...Hotel, Prima Donna Mafalda Favero of Milan's famed La Scala washed shirts for Baritone Danilo Checchi, who was stopping at another hotel. Favero pawned some of her jewelry, cried: "The first time I go to the jewelers to sell and not to buy. Maybe I get a mask and gun and go out Chicago style to get some money. This experience never was in the program...
...innumerable remedies for seasickness suggested by medicos and inventive travelers (ranging from champagne-drinking to an oxygen mask), perhaps the most picturesque is that of George Bernard Shaw, who, in his traveling days, claimed that he got complete immunity by padding along the deck, knees sagging, with a relaxed, apelike gait...