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...been a successful hostess in Paris by acting, in many ways, just about as she did in the late 19203, when the Eisenhower apartment on the Rue d'Auteuil-occupied while Ike served with the American Battle Monuments Commission -was known as "Club Eisenhower" to their friends, and nearby Mirabeau Bridge as "Pont Mamie...
...Schneider, the patient, amiable No. 2 barber at the shop in Paris' suburban Rue Chevreuse, was a man slow to anger. The first time he found his luncheon rice spiced with crushed electric-light bulbs, he put it down to accident. The following week his good wife Madeleine once again garnished the rice in his lunch box with glass, and added a few carpet tacks. Léon began to wonder, and asked his boss about it. "I don't meddle in other people's affairs," said the boss...
Cornelius van Dongen was one of the original fauves (wild beasts) of modern art. Today he is one of the tamest pets of Paris. At 75, he is a dapper and well-to-do gentleman who sports a Shavian beard and has a well-appointed studio on the fashionable Rue de Courcelles. Over the past 30 years he has become the most successful portrait painter in France. His models: just about everyone from Maurice Chevalier to Queen Marie of Rumania...
...work of Duquesnvy, an Italian sculptor. It was paid for by a rich citizen of Brussels, Belgium, in honor of the finding of the citizen's small son who was lost for a period of five days. The youngster was found at the corner of the Rue de L'Etuve and so the statuette was erected on the spot and in the position in which he was found. The Little Squirt on sale at J. AUGUST in the Square. Price...
...never had a sitter he admired more than Franklin Roosevelt. It was not hard to get F.D.R. talking, and he once told Jo his secret ambition. "Do you know," asked F.D.R., "that cheese shop in Paris on the Rue d'Amsterdam? . . . When I get through with this job of being President . . . I am going to open a cheese shop like that...