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'Okay, okay, so we ain't no yachtsman, but this tub ain't the Sceptre, either!"
London Expresa Zervica
Riddle: Just who owns the Riviera's plushiest villa?
Paris.
HERE is an eerie un-
THERE
reality, and some ele-
PARIS NEWS LETTER by SAM_WHITE
ment of farce, about the money in Florida real estate, rent as no one is sure who is atom bomb air bases froni fate that has overtaken the Mr Lonch, who is separated the rightful owner. Meanwhile, Morocco.
from his wife, lives there alone Mr Lynch continues to live The reason the Americans most distinguished estate with his secretary, but with an there in D style faintly agreed to withdraw in the fact on the Riviera.
ever-changing complement of reminiscent of that old film of nationalist agitation is be- house guests who are tended by classic, The Ghost Goes West. cause they feel that both of the 21, servants.
moderate nationalist regimen In His main interest is bridge to Morocco and Tunisia are doomed which he devotes the greater to be sucked into the Arab part of his day and much of the League orbit. night. Dinner is o formality which, once disposed of, enables MrLynch, who rents the the carefully-chosen bridge- Unemployment estate for & small sum has playing guests to get down to Job-hunting in spent well over £150,000 in the the rest business of the evening. Belinda Loo's past five years maintaining it. The game is played for stakes
Consuela has lived in the of only a few shillings:
ZPrince Orsini, the war,
Technically it still belongs to Consueln, the former Duchess of Marlborough, whose second husband, Jacques Balean, died in 1956.
Treasures
Three wills
was French and death duties
The estate lles between Monto United States since Carlo and Eze, stretches all the and has no wish to return to way from the Corniche down to Europe, The estate belonged to LOOKING through the the sea, and covers an entire her second, husband, but as he register of an exclusive. mountainside.
The villa on the estate was on his French properties would Paris hotel, I came across built in 1920. Its rooms
have been crippling, his will the name "Sir Cecil Ben- panelled either in original six- as a complicated one.
ton."
I asked the re tecath- or
He made three separate wills, ceptionist when the far seventeenth-century Venetian panelling in oak leaving the Eze estate to three mous Royal photographer Danelling from the
are
ancestral relatives.
But all
three.
Marlborough home. It is rich frightened by the taxation they had been knighted. Sha in Mariborough treasurės, to would incur, refused the replied: "Oh, but he has which the Vanderbilt fortune. bequest.
always been Sir Cecil to has added much of its own chnically, tho property us." collection.
therefore reverts to the widow,
note t Paris - friend,
-(London Express Service),
QUOTES
Film
actress
Jean
Seberg: "I don't think Joan of Arc would neces
arily have made a good Prime Minister.”
Jean Paul Sartre "II had to choose between Loting for God or General For the past five years the but a daughter by her fest The big news of the week has de Gaulle, I would vote house has been, occupied by a marriage claims it as hers. passed almos: unnoticed in
He is more rich, 77-year-old American, The position now is that there Parls. It is that the Americans for God. Stephen Lynch, who made his to no one to whom to pay the have decided to withdraw their modest.”
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
King Bought A Secret Weapon Just IT is not only in this age of guided miselles that To Suppress It
armies have thought of keeping warfare at a distance. Long before gunpowder was invented,
www
The Pharos
the Assyrians and Greeks relied to a great extent large classes full of burning them against tho Scots at on long-range fire power in the literal sense of flut to destroy Roman ships. Stirling Castle in 1304, the word "fire".
But the mont ecleordinary at Alexandria, are device one of the Seven Wonders of the Egyptians against the Mo
was employed by There is also a great deal in the tubes on to encany ships the World, is also said to have gols in 1258. It was a daming "Greek fire of ancient times fuel was a mixture of bitumen, which duld be used to direct towards the amy after dark. common between the sinister It is probable that the secret had a large mirror at the top horse and rider who roed and the radio-active fall-out sulphur, mphtha and quicklime. the ray of the run on to the The rider soaked his shirt and after an atomic explosion. Both The effect of water on the rigging of enemy ships,
doublot in a protective' mix- have been a source of terrar for quicklime would be to raise the a long time after the initial femperature.
Exaggented legends claimed ture and covered the horse in assault.
concentrated rays the same way. Then he donned In the very earliest Ames, caused fe in ships as far as helmet, impregnated with rofders threw flaming torches on -100 mile away. There la an naphtha, and incendiary wisps the wooden huts of helpless ancient biening mirror of this of two victims, ar the inflammable kind pis in
the Arilliery him and his mount, parts of a fortress. But veseols Museum të Stockholm, Sweden. Liquid fire was used ag tur back as 424 B.C., but sudilon pot containing firo-making rainstorms often put it out. The mixtures, and a burning tip on infamous.Greek fro, however,
Flaming Dogs
which
un arrow, were soon developed. WES - ED dimeult to The pots were fairly successful but the daming, arrows, often extinguish, enme at the end of went out as they sped, through the 7th century A.D. and wES a top-secret of the times. Heavy penalties wero fald down for
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conveying fire by old-fashioned mixtures Were Greek frẻ. But luckily for ·
atill being sed by the few mankind, the formula was lost, -Samson for example, "caught who had the teoret at the time Chemists in Britain, France arki It is said to have been the 300 fords" and pairing them off Saracens det severe blows mado a similar discovery, but of the Craden, And the Holland are also saki, to 'figve Invention of Kailenilom, an puta Are-brand between the architect, and was a semi-liquid two talls, according
with Greek fire. They also for humanitarian reasons, the mixture which water only kiado Bible. The flaming:
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father-in-law,
taken by Louis XIV of France, actually the cae,
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