FRANCE: Hospital Happiness

In the motley crowd of politicians, prostitutes, gangsters, detectives and hired editors who make up the cast of L'Affaire Stavisky, greatest political scandal since the War, no figure is more pathetic than that of Arlette Simon Stavisky, the once theatrically beautiful wife of the late swindler.

Sly little "Sacha" Stavisky was not a man to confide in women. No serious student of the case has ever suggested that the girl who was once the best-looking model at Chanel's and who loyally bore him two children in the...

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