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...problem of restoring France's econ omy was chiefly a question of finding men to do the work. One of the points that Marshal Pétain discussed with the Armis tice Commission was the return of 1,500,000 French prisoners of war, still held in German prison camps. In central and southern France were 10,000,000 refugees waiting to be conveyed back into territory occupied by Nazis. There were 1,200,000 Belgians waiting to be sent back to Belgium. To repair railroads and highways, reconstruct bridges destroyed by German bombs, the Premier last week mobilized...
...Norwich Corporation, all in full robes, as the Town Crier intoned, "Make way! Make way for God's and the King's Judge! Make way!" Sir John Hawke was in scarlet robe with imposing ermine collar and full powdered wig, the conventional embodiment of British Jus tice. He said a loud prayer for wisdom and righteousness as he will when the case of Simpson v. Simpson comes before him, probably next week...
...Vlaminck, Rouault. Of the lot it was Georges Rouault who became Fifi Vollard's closest friend. Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection of the Com mune of 1871. As far as anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice in a stained glass factory where for four or five years he earned 50 centimes (then about 9?) a week. He studied under the romantic-classical Gérome, William Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau, grew to be known as one of the wildest of modernists. Georges Rouault...
...distance. Mr. Roosevelt was impressed with his ability to assemble political facts; liked his fresh political outlook. Here was no cut & dried college professor wedded to the past but rather an agreeable, cultured man who was itching for a chance to put his academic theories on government into prac tice, a man of thoughtful independence who could admire Tammany's Boss Murphy and still vote for Socialist Norman Thomas, a man who could say without cynicism: "Practical politics is dependent upon an ability to guess accurately which way to act." Raymond Moley is not an economist...
...person has been buried, the act shall be considered murder, no matter what result follows." No scientist has investigated zombies. But reports indicate that the term means people who have died of disease, old age or wounds and. before decomposition, been reanimated. White Zombie combines voodoo murder prac tice and zombie resurrection, proposing that a zombie is a man who is still alive but whose soul and brain have been killed by remote hypnosis. Cinema zombies are oddly hypnotized men, more credible to cinemaddicts than true resurrected corpses, such as fabulously stalk the Haitian jungles...