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When Henry Gauthier-Villars, known in Paris literary circles as plain "Willy," met little Gabrielle Colette in Châtillon-Coligny, he was "completely stunned" by the sight of her long, braided hair and "airy grace." At their wedding dinner in 1893, 20-year-old Colette drank too much champagne and fell fast asleep over the table. "As I woke up, I heard my husband's voice...
...half a dozen provincial dailies have folded. The party still has an elite of probably 30,000 hard-core Communists, but the rank & file have been gravely affected by the Moscow damning of two of their great heroes: Old Communist Andre Marty and World War II Resistance Leader Charles Tillon. Now "our dear Maurice" would put things right...
...most threatening in the West, has become disorganized during the long absence of Maurice Thorez (who was so ill in Moscow last week that he could not appear for Stalin's funeral), and divided over the recent purges of two of its stalwarts, André Marty and Charles Tillon. In Paris, Acting Boss Jacques Duclos put on a black hat and black overcoat when he got the word of Stalin's death, and led France's straggly delegation to Moscow for the funeral. Somehow, as he climbed into a chartered Polish airplane at Le Bourget, he seemed...
...future. As they sifted Shcherbakov's political ashes last week, however, Russian specialists in the outside world noted one striking fact: he was involved during the war with a clique of Communists which included Rumania's Ana Pauker, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky, France's Charles Tillon, two of them recently cast into disfavor and one of them-Slansky-executed...
...rings in a rattlesnake's tail. The Parisian newspaper Le Figaro has an expert who, listening closely to the rattling of the French party, has accurately forecast such moves as Leader Maurice Thorez' summons to Moscow in 1950 and the recent purging of oldtime militants Marty and Tillon. Last week Le Figaro's expert, who signs himself "XXX," predicted that the next man marked for Communist oblivion is pudgy, acting Party Secretary General Jacques Duclos, who was once so powerful that, by writing an article in a French Communist magazine, he had Earl Browder kicked...