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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

OFF FLORIDA COAST ABOARD THE USS BONTEREY, Mar, 28—The Flying Farmers are sold lock, stock and barrow on the Navy. They saw a cafreer in action and loved every minute of the all-day show. Service-type aircraft landed and took off the deck of Capt. D. L. Mills’ ship with thrills to last the 2200 visitors until the cows come home, The skipper, a former Hoosier and farm boy, staged a five-star performance. To the ship personnel, the qualification flights were a routine part of the training program of the naval training command. To the guests it was a miracle of _ nerve, precision and technical skill. Just to be on board a huge aircraft carrier is a thrill,

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BUT THAT was only the beginning. Deck activity in preparation for the aviators was intense, Six training ships on the deck disappeared below on elevators that are capable of going down and back up with an aircraft in 23 seconds. Three crash barriers’ and the retaining cables were tested. Medical corpsmen in asbestos suits took their places on the edge of the landing deck. A destroyer stood ready to fish a flyer out of the water if he had tough luck. Flying Farmers lined every available rail, At almost regular intervals, you saw a red baseball cap sailing into the water. Members of the deck force wore helmets, fan Then the attack dive bombers appeared and buzzed around the carrier waiting for the signal to commence the operations. We were told the planes in the air had seen service in Korea. * & 4

THE PILOTS who completed this final phase of their training were scheduled for the most part to be sent overseas. The men were not cadets. They were qualified pilots who had many landings on carriers to their credit in everything but service-type aircraft. b The white flag to begin operations appeared on the bridge. Instructions were radioed to the pilots. They began to make their approaches. We saw the lead ship fly past low and begin its turn to hit the aft (rear) end of the ship. > > &

IF A FLYING saucer had appeared on the bow of the ship, no Flying Farmer would have seen it. It seemed as if the pilot would never

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar, 28 — Humphrey Bogart that brave man—has come out with the fearless assertion that he's glad that he's a little bald. Because, says Bogie, bald men are a little sexier, Sitting there at 21 at his favorite table along with his favorite wife, Lauren Bacall, Bogie said he didn’t mind us referring to the fact that he wears a slight “piece” in his pictures. “After all, I've found that a man can have very little hair on his head and still be very attractive to women,” said Mr. Bogart, “Isn't that true, Baby?” “You said it, honey,” replied Miss Bacall. “Got to humor him,” she said to us. Mr. Bogart then decided to name the bald men who have sex appeal. The country has been crying for something like this for years. It took Mr. Bogart to think of this forward step. “¥frst there's Bing Crosby, the dream man,” said Mr. Bogart. “Charles Boyer... “Fred Astaire.., “Gene Kelly... LE ER “ISN'T BOB HOPE getting a little sparse?” I asked. Bob's a friend of mine and I didn’t want to keep him off of any deserving list, as it wouldn't be fair to Mack Millar, his press agent. “All right, if ‘you say so,” agreed Mr. Bogart. “Then there's Ike Eisenhower who has very little hair and a lot of sex appeal,” continued Bogie. “Gen. MacArthur, when he takes that cap off...” I broke in to suggest a couple of racketeers. “This is just men of distinction types,” Bogie said. “We've got to keep this dignified.” “Then you can't be on it,” said Baby. “Leo Durocher . .. there's a great addition to our list,” Bogie went on. “George Jessel, who has a toupee for every day and every mood. “Phil Baker . .. Louis Sobol... Oh!” Looking across the room, he spotted an old friend who would also have had his feelings hurt if he'd been forgotten. “Ted Husing!” said Mr. Bogart.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 28—As long as curious and embarrassing questions are being asked so freely these days, I would sure admire to see a clarification of just how Lucky Luciano’s parole originated. Gov. Dewey said at the time that fit was purely routine indorsement of a routine parole board suggestion. At the time of Luciano’s graduation from Dannemora, Gov. Dewey announced to the press that consideration was being shown to Luciano because of war work. “Upon the entry of the United States into the war, Luciano’s, aid was sought by the armed services in inducing others to provide information concerning possible enemy attacks. It appears he co-op-erated in such effort . ..” The foolishness of this announcement did not become clearly apparent at the time, even when there were printed suggestions that this murderous thug was to be given a Congressional Medal of Honor for his wartime heroism from the safety of his cot in Dannemora. Anyone who was doing any thinking at the time would have realized that the United States, filled as it is with honest, intelligent and decent Italians, scarcely would have needed to call on a hood who knew considerably more about Brooklyn than about Naples, So & & 1 FELL to brooding over this when I dug the boy up in Havana a few-years back, as he was working up a sympathy campaign to sneak himself home again—or, at worst, remain snugly in Havana. within easy reach of his underlings in the dope business. He was, at the time, conferring with some of the top hoods of the nation who had flown in from Miami. I pulled a spot chéck then and there with Wild Bill Donovan. head ‘of the OSS, and with Army and Navy intelligence. They never heard of the bum in any capacity save that of convicted panderer. Gov. Dewey's office, in the form of Mr. Charles Breitel, told me that Luciano’s deportation was

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complete his turn so he could land straight on the deck. You could plainly see the catch hook dangling, the flaps down all the way, and the airplane rapidly losing speed. For one breathless moment the aircraft hung by its propeller.

‘As it straightened and came over the deck it

droped to a three-point landing. A cable snagged the plane and it jolted to a complete stop. ¢ % % MEN from each side of the carrier vaulted to the deck. The cable was unhooked, the landing gear checked. Thumbs went up. The flight officer waved a small flag furiously in a small circle over his head. The powerful engine roared to life. The flight officer leaned foreward and dramatically pointed his flag straight ahead. The tail of the aircraft lifted, and with an ear-splitting roar the plane shot past the bridge and rose into the wind before the first ship's wheels left the carrier. The crash barriers, three in all, were up, and another plane was hovering over the stern. The performance was repeated. Sometimes the fight signal officer waved a pilot off if his approach was too fast, if he was too high or too low. “9 & WITH A GROWL that rivaled the start of the first lap of the 500-Mile Speedway Classic, the plane veered up and away from the carrier. Right behind it" was another, and another. We found out the flight officer who waved the planes into the air again with his small flag was a southerner. To signal he uses a Confederate flag. 3 Bont ask why, For a half hour at noon operations were suspended. Then a flight of five Navy Bearcats began to land and take off. The wind increased sharply. It was decided that the cadets would not. be allowed to attempt their first carrier landings. The retainers would remain below.

“oo ob THE FINAL exercise would ‘be catapault launchings, The planes were refueled A cable

was attached to the plane and the catapault mechanism. In 770 feet the plane would be air borne. A catching device called a spider retained the cable as it fell free of the plane. Everything went off perfectly. The Flying Farmers wiped foreheads and sweaty palms. “This is real flying,” remarked on» of the guests. “I wonder if I can join up.”

Bogie Is Glad He's Little Bald

“And Robert Siodmak, the director,” 1 suggested. “His wife says she thinks he looks just wonderful Without hair.” > + * “WELL! If you're going to include directors,” said Mr. Bogart, “you've got fo put in Gregory Ratoff and Otto Preminger, a real] Romeo.” But Mr: Bogart didn’t get away with it that easily from Baby. “Don’t you think, Mr. Bogart,” she said. “that a man who wears a toupee is like a girl who wears falsies?” : “The hell with the hair on your head. It's the hair on your chest that counts!” shouted her husband. : So as to leave no doubt about that phase of it, he ‘opened his shirt, right there in 21, bared his chest, and revealed a chest that was practically a Persian rug. “How d’you like him when he puts @ rug on his head?” I asked Baby. “Oh, he's DIVINE when he puts one on in pictures.” The young publicist from United Artists was squeamish about this whole thing. “But not for publication!” he jittered. “Oh, certainly,” said Mr. Bogart. “I never wear one except on the screen. The same as Crosby.” S$ 4 H TURNING TO Baby, he said, “And don’t you think, Baby, that a man can have sex appeal though bald?” “A man can have sex appeal though bald— if he's Eisenhower,” she answered. Mr. Bogart shrugged. As far as the list's con-

cerned, he doesn’t have to worry about it being |

published. After all, he pointed out, he's off to Europe for four months and in four months one's friends may forget and forgive him for having elevated them to such a dubious honor. Se Pb Wn TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Fran Warren saw a play in which the actors knew their lines backwards and forwards—or at least it sounded that way. : > Sd &

WISH I'D SAID THAT: Bandleader Gene,

Williams says a woman's age goes in one year and out the other. That's Earl, brother.

How Did Luciano’s Parole Originate?

merely routine, in order to rid the nation of an undesirable alien who had served 10 years of his sentence. It now pops up that Lt. Cmdr. Charles Haffenden, who wrote a letter to the parole board, was employed as City Commissioner of Marine and Aviation, which put him in charge of the city’s piers, from which goons kept the press forcibly away from Luciano's deporting ship— same ship to which Frank Costello paid a call with a bulky briefcase which might have been filled with money. “® vb IT ALSO turns out that a few explanations of Luciano’s wartime heroism comes out -- Cmdr Haffenden says that Luciano was nominated as an undercover informant about dock doings, because dock doings were largely dominated by Italians. Another informant was Socks Lanza. another hood. ‘ It just so happened that Lanza was running the executive end of the narcotics racket as Luciano’s deputy, and the job was getting too big for him. His collusion with the boss was desirable for interests that sure had nothing to do with a war. Cmdr. Haffenden says he overstated Luciano’s value in a letter to Mr. Breitel. Mr. Breitel appears to have been interested in Mr. Luciano, since Cmdr. Haffenden said he had written to

him to inquire if “Luciano had been of any value?” :

0» ANOTHER WILD explanation that was volunteered at the time was that Luciano had many contacts with Nova Scotian fishermen. and hence was influential in anti-submarine defense, pa Now it seems clear that, simultaneously, Luciano could not have masterminded the Sicilian invasion while running the dockworkers while controlling the Nova Scotian fishing industry while serving a sentence while being of no value whatsoever according to later statemetits from So¥. Dawey 8 office and gro bm Gen. Donovan, Army I think that a great many this e cleared up if the exact terms of ka oh tion of Lucky's release could be procured hy the Senate committee on naughtiness, :

Another of ‘Bing’s Things'—

Crosby Boys to Market

By ELIZABETH TOOMEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Mar. 28—Somebody’s built a better lunch box, now plastic screw-on cap—no cork to|gives her something in common skipping the noon snack. And the Crosby boys, Everett and Bing, are about ready to put

that food prices have fol

it on the market.

Older brother Everett, who is Bing's manager and president of the Crosby Enterprises, explained the streamlined plastic lunch box

New Lunch Box

food, plus a thermos with a new her

get rancid.”

them to try for 12 hours.

on a business trip here and added | that “Bing’s Things, Inc.” also good,”

a razor with a small battery in lunch box on the white table cloth tic.

the handle, capable of generating of a midtown dining spot.

power for about 300 shaves, ©

i “The thing that makes this pastel “We're swamped with people lunch box better is that-it allows Everett, who was eating a ham who have invented something and a child to go to school with a sandwich on rye bread as his

“Looks like a makeup hox in for working girls,» said

The Indianapolis

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1951 PAGE 11

Spotlight on Washington—

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‘Big Four’ Is Only Military Circulating in Upper Circles

! CHAPTER FOUR By MARY VAN R. THAYER

WASHINGTON, Mar, 28—This city is overflowing with military but about the only “brass” circulating in upper social circles is

| the Big Four. That

'| military people to be entertained.

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is partly because there are so many important non-

And partly because each Chief of

| Staff's job is to represent his branch of the service on the Hill,

lat embassies and wherever a itouch of military glitter is re|quired. The Big Four are: Chairman of ‘the Joint Chiefs {of Staff, General of the Army {Omar N. Bradley. i Chief of Staff for the U. 8. | Army, Gen. J. Lawton Collins. | Chief of Naval Operations, {Adm. Forrest Sherman. | Chief of Staff of. the U. 8. Alr | Force, Gen. Hoyt 8. Vandenberg. i Because he is simple, courtly, {kindly even to the most tedious old bores who badger him. Gen.

Bradley, deservedly, is regarded as a saint, ” ” n YET, “SAINT OMAR” is not unworldly. He does a superb

public relations job in a calm, detached attitude that i= a marvel to see. In line of duty accompanied by pretty, gentle Mrs. Bradley, he attends an exhausting round of dinners, receptions, cocktail parties at embassies or by members of Congress and (highly placed residential society. At these entertainments, many of which must be extremely boring to the general, it is like

watching a topnotch play to ob- Navy lost in prestige and can-

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ERITOR'S NOTE: This is the Tourth installment of a | close up view of Washington | life, official and social, during these “Cold War” days.

fcan soldier turned dipiomat and statesman.

. » » . GEN. LAWTON COLLINS, {Chief of Staff of the Army, has (a less trying role. His social obligations are not as heavy. He ris not sought after as varaciously ‘as other Chiefs of Staff because (his blonde, rugged personality, ithough attractive, is less flexible.

{Small talk does not come easily,

While Gen. Bradley finds hunting trips relaxing, Gen, Collins fancies himsel as a gardener. Adm. Forrest Sherman is rated the shrewdest, most intelligent member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He's the probable successor to the chairmanship when Gen. | Bradley retires. Compact, ruddyicheeked, his aggressive features {reveal little except a <ense of inner, indomitable force. { In twa years since the unification row, when Sherman replaced Adm. Louis Denfield, | he ‘has contrived to get back everything — and more -—- which the

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serve the Bradleys' skilled per- celled material. } Pp | Even the big flat-top, vetoed so nephew of Sen. Arthur Vanden-

formance. | They seldom forget They never fail to greet members of the press. At weddings, for

awestruck kids and shakes hands with them. He has a knack for making

genius. In fact Gen. Bradley is four finest example of the Ameri-

soon sail the seas.

strictly naval circles.

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American soldier turned diplomat."

'SAINT OMAR' AND MRS. BRADLEY—The chairman of the

joint chiefs of staff is described as "the finest example of an

important member of the team.

GEN. Hoyt 8.

Vandenberg,

a name, arbitrarily by Louis Johnson, will|berg, has been handicapped by

{good looks and by his youthful Adm. Sherman and his’ petite, appearance, though he's a grandinstance, the general singles out brunette wife Dolores move in father. ‘At 51 he is no boy genius

as privately as possible in Wash-! officers.

ington, in “Admiral's House,” a! unpresuming, yet flattering after/rambling white structure manned in his huge command is too small |dinner speeches which are sheer by Philippine mess boys, atop a for his attention. Observatory he affects bright colored trousers 'and giddy sport shirts as a revolt

hill in the Naval

enclosure.

Early Indianapolis—

Big

Threatens to Take Her Scalp

From: “Early Reminiscences of Indianapolis”

Number Four of a Series By JOHN H. B. NOWLAND ONE BRIGHT. sunny Sunday morning, about

the middle of

March, 1821. my father 2nd myself took a walk to the river.

When within about 50 vards (which stood where the toll-hou of White River bridge), we heard from the house. We ran, and b men had arrived. { It appears a well-known and {desperate Delaware, known as, Big Bottle (from the fact that! | he generally carried hung to his |belt a very large bottle) had] {come to the opposite bank of] the river, and demanded to be! { brought over. | Mr. McCormick not being at home, his wife refused to take the canoe over for Big Bottle, knowing that he wanted whisky, land when drinking was a very dangerous Indian. ” 5 2 HE SET his gun down against a tree, and plunged into the river and swam over, and when we reached the house was ascending

the bank, tomahawk in hand, preparatory to cutting his way through the door, which Mrs.

McCormick had barricaded. At the sight«of the several men he desisted from his intention and said he only wished to “scare white squaw."” He waz taken back to his own side of the river in the canoe, and admonished that if he attempted to scare the white squaw

Can’t Speak a Wo

of the house of John McCormick se now stands, at the east end cries of “Help! Murder!” coming v the time we got there several again her husband would kill him. This rather irritated him, and he flourished his scalpingknife toward her, and intimated by signs from her head toward his belt, that he would take her

| scalp; but he never did.

o s n ROBERT WILMOT, the second merchant to arrive in Indianapolis, had a small stock of goods and Indian trinkets, and for a short time carried on a trade with the Indians; but a little circumstance occurred that frightened him, and he soon returned to Georgetown, Ky. his former residence. A Delaware Indian, named Jim Lewis, had pledged some silver hat-bands to Wilmot for goods. and was to return in two moons and redeem them. His word he kept, but when he came back Wilmot had sold them to another Indian, which exasperated Lewis, so he threatened Wilmot that if he ever found him going to his cornfield alone he would take his scalp.

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They live but the most deadly efficient of

Meticulous by nature, no detail

In private life

The chairman's wife is an

from years in uniform. When he can steal time, he eases his terrific job tension by shooting a low round at the Burning Tree: Golf Club. Because they are tireless. enthusiastic and personify Air Force glamour, Gen. Vandenberg and his svelte “Glad” are in great

{demand wherever Washington's

“Who's Who" gathers, * Some of the military's second echelon get aroynd too.

Indians Threaten First Settlers

Bottle ‘Scares White Squaw’;

An Indian attempts to cut a door down.

This frightened much that he never alone, but often

Wilmot =o

requested and

was accompanied by the late Dr

would go Livingston Dunlap.

So fearful was Wilmot that

First Lady Of France Pays Visit

| She's Confident

of Hurdling

Language Barrier With Trumans

By ROSETTE Times Spe PARIS, Mar. 28-—-There's onl cent Auriol, the First Lady of United States. She can’t speak a

HARGROVE

cial Writer ‘ y one thing worrying Mme. VinFrance, about her visit to the word of English, and she knows

that the Trumans don't speak French.

But those who know the cha are sure she won't let a little thin The lady who's been called “the i most elegant First Lady ever to grace the Palais de I'Elysees” (France's White House) .will be able to cross that-barrier easily, her friends feel sure She has a natural dignity, gracious bearing, serenity, poise and a warm smile-—qualities that are understood in any language. And middle-class background

[with her Washington host and |

The containers will keep food) hostess. hot or cold for 10 hours now, he! said, but they're still working on

Michele Aucouturier was the] | daughter of a glass factory work-| |er. She was barely 15 when dash-|

{yer and socialist editor, proposed | marriage. Her parents insisted 'on a vear's engagement and she was just 16 when she married .the man destiffed to France's president. n y .

rming wife of France's president g like language stand im her way.

her' desire to help her ambftious husband,

“From the very beginning of my married life,” she became my husband's chief eollaborator. Throughout his long

career I have shared all his problems and his hopes.”

says, “1

By the time she was 18 her husband was a member of the Chamber of Deputies and she was the mother of a son, Paul. At 40 she was the wife of a cabinet minister... At 50, she was First Lady of her country. Now 54, she can look back on 38 years of successful, happy marriage with only

The|ing young Vincent Auriol. a law-/one separation. explained husky - voiced outside of the rectangular box has a new pliable metal doll and Everett, drawing a picture of the .,mes in various shades of plas-

That came during World War II. Her husband escaped to London in 1943 with Mme. Auriol supposed .'to join him. But she

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her a decoration for her efforts in the Resistance Movement.

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MME. AURIOL is an artistic

become ‘qocided to stay in° France, near person, who made all her own

her son and grandchildren. She clothes before her husband was

learned to code and decode mes-

elected president. Now,

though,

Me

MME. AURIOL—"| became my husband's chief collaborator."

® best-dressed Frenchwoman last year. Her ‘sense of the artistic has even changed French architecture. She persuaded the state architects that a, huge glassed-in Veranda on the Palais--which had heen known as the “monkey

High ‘Brass’ Carries Social Polish

Gen. Bradley ls Called ‘St. Omar’

Most familiar ngure is Vie Chief of the Army, Lt. Gen-Wade Haislip. He “dreamed up” the WACs in World War II. Friendly, cosy, the roly-poly General and his pretty wife travel in Wash. ington's more ornamental set. 4

» n o A CAPITAL newcomer is hand» some, white-halred Gen. Nathan Twining, down from an Alaskan command to replace the late. Gen, Muir Fairchild as Air Force Chief of Staff, : Over on the Navy side, the Vice-Chief of Naval Operations 18 Vice-Adm. Lynde McCormick. Lately, the Nuvy has reas signed to Washington one of iis most popular officers as Depu U. 8S. Representative of NA (North Atlantic Treaty Organization.) He's Vice-Adm. Jerrauld Wright, commander of the submarine which picked up France's General Giraud and. deposited him with Robert Murphy before the invasion on the North African Coast, The four directors of the armed services’ feminine branches tend mostly to their Pentagon knitting. !

o » » BUT ON such occasions as the Congressional Club Reception for President Truman, they emerge in the new splendour of their dress uniforms. Two of them are tiny, Cal. Mary Halloran of the WACs and Col.. Geraldine May of the WAFS, who was one of the original WAC recruits out in Iowa. : Capt. Joyce Hancock, sweet-looking, took over WAVES from Jean Palmer. Col” Katherine Towle. whitehaired, looks a Marine every inch of her 5 feet 10 inches. Her red and gold embroidered uniform matches in most detail the evening dress which makes her boss, Marine commandant Gen. Clifton (Cates, one of the most striking military figures in the capital.’

TOMORROW — Washington's Prima Donnas, the Senators.

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Here

Trader Flees To Save Scalp |

Lewis would execute his threat, that he sold out and, as before stated, returned to Kentucky, as

+ it was pretty generally known

that Lewis was the murderer of the white man found near the Bluffs on the {island of White

* River.

n ” ” THIS THREAT against Wilmot had a tendency to alarm and put on their guard other settlers. That spring, my father made sugar at an old Indian sugar camp (many of the trees are still standing) at the southeast end of Virginia Ave. He was alone at night boiling the sap when he discovered coming straight at him and only about 30 steps distant a man he took at once to be Jim Lewis. He raised his rifle, pointed it at the man and directed him to stop. The person threw up his hands, and cried out, “Don’t shoot, Nowland, it is Harris." It turned out to be an old friend from Kentucky, named Price Harris, who had just aprived that evening and wished to Bo out to the camp that night. He wore a white hat, which my father took for the silver bands Lewis wore on hig hat. The supposed murder of George Pogue by the Indians, about this time, increased the alarm, and put the settlers more on thejr guard than they had ever been. =

TOMORROW: George Pogue,

To U.S.

Has Gracious Bearing, Dignity

revealing the full glory of the building's 18th Centuiv facade She has studied painting and 15 a fervent admirer of modern art. She hopes to be able to escape the protocol in the 17. 8 ta pay an unofficial visit to New York & Mi-

seum of Modern Art and the Na tional Museum tn Washington. un » ny

THE FIRST LADY of Francs

takes a very active interest in the running of the presidential palace. She checks the day's menu with the head chef every morning, promptly at 8. When there is a state function,

she always supervises the floral decorations, approves the specially engraved menus and checks place cards with the chief of protocol. Her other duties as First Lady are mostly secretarial. She receives an average of 300 letters a day, which she answers with the help of two secretaries. Most are appeals for help. She has definite ideas about what makes a good wife, “The most important quality tn a woman,” says Mme. Auriol, “is to make family life as harmonious and as interesting 28 Joast ble and be a real helpmate to her. husband.” hoe Those who know Mme. Auriel

ALTHOUGH HER early mar- sages to and from London and she dresses in the fashionable cre-

want help in developing it and really nourishing lunch,” he con- lunch, “In fact vou can remove’

# Betting it on the market, but only tinued. 4 “There are two round the compartmengs and it is a riage killed her chances @f fin- narrowly missed being arrested ations of Parisian dressglesigners. cage” to disrespectful Parisians gjsay she practices what she about one out of évery 500 is plastic containers for hot or cold makeup box.” : (ishing her education, it didn’t kill by the Nazi. Her work brought Her taste won her the title of the.was an eyesore. It was removed, preaches. ; - - a i ” 3 : - 2 : . ; Lo : 2 ’ - | : . » - : A * § . > 2 ¥ A =