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Last Nazi bigwig's wife to do her fall shopping in Paris was probably Emmy Göring. She paid a flying visit to her favorite couturiere, Jeanne Lanvin in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, just a fortnight before the Americans came to town...
...rue de Caumartin, the New York Times's Frederick Graham, Gene Currivan and Harold Denny found bureau furniture scattered throughout the building. But some typewriters and the expensive telephone-transmission equipment had been safely hidden...
...Pablo Picasso, 62, was well and busy in his Rue Saint Augustin studio. Now almost white-haired, he had a new bathroom, a new six-months-old son. He had refused to sell to Germans personally. Because Hitler considers Picasso's work degenerate, Germans who had bought Picassos from dealers dared not do so openly...
Whisking and Oiling. Former Paris Managing Editor Eric Hawkins and Correspondent John O'Reilly expected to find a shambles when they reached the New York Herald Tribune's old office at 21 rue de Berri, home of the tourist-loved Paris Herald. Instead they found their bureau's prewar business manager, Renee Brasier, whisking the office into shape and talking plans for future work. Triumphantly she led them to the composing room. "There, cleaning up forms and oiling linotype machines, were mechanical employes of the paper, some of whom had worked for it since...
...shrapnel-scarred 2 rue des Italiens, United Pressmen Henry T. Gorrell, Richard D. McMillan and Ernie Pyle found the Germans had stolen the mahogany desks. But a U.P. employe had hidden the typewriters in his home...