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...production plaster replicas that perpetuate igth Century traditions of prettiness and molasses-smoothness. One reason is that few parishes can afford to commission sculptures on their own. Instead they buy from manufacturers catering to a safely low denominator of public taste. In Paris, a row of shops along the Rue St.-Sulpice supplies the demand. In the U.S., it's Barclay Street, in downtown Manhattan...
Elsewhere in France, the talk was about a British bulldog and a French poodle who were joined by a lanky wolfhound as they strolled along the Rue de la Paix. "Well," said the latter in a strong Russian accent, "how are things with you? Have you been getting enough to eat?" "Oh, things are picking up a bit in England," said the bulldog, "but we've had rather a bad time of it, y'know. Rations and so forth." "Oh, yes," said the poodle, "and here we're not much better off. Why, during the occupation...
Roland Boisvin, aged 53, a mechanic, left his home in the Rue de 1'Exposition after an early lunch. A World War I veteran, he was going to join comrades of the Association des Anciens Combattants who were to lay their traditional Armistice Day wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe...
Last week, in France-Soir's building on the Rue Réaumur, blond young (28) Publisher Aristide Blank made a hardheaded guess about the future of the French press; "An island of collectivism cannot exist in a sea of capitalism. The only possible press here is one based on solid commercial foundations. In a few months the entire face of the French press will change. Then there will be only very small papers of opinion, and very great papers of information. We are going in the direction of cartels of the press...
...Holles almost accepted a coaching bid from Cornell in 1937, but when he finally fell prey to the lure of Bill Bingham's offerings he recommended the name of Stork Sanford to the powers that be at Ithaca. He has had plenty of days since then on which to rue that advice, for Sanford and his Cornell eights have given the Crimson more trouble than any other opponent over the last decade...