G.I.s visiting Paris want to see the Eiffel Tower, the Folies Bergere, and Pablo Picasso. Their interest in art gen erally and Picasso in particular has astonished art dealers, Artist Picasso and the Red Cross, which handles their enter tainment requests.
The first to find their way to Picasso's huge, messy duplex studio at No. 7 rue des Grands Augustins were two cherubic-looking 9th Air Force sergeants. French phrase books clutched in their hands, Gerland Gildner and Eugene van Sant clattered in with a musette bag full of gifts. They dumped their presents happily onto a canvas which lay on the table...
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