Foreign News: FRENCH VISITOR

The week's most distinguished visitor to Washington is France's Premier Guy Mol-let, a Socialist, who has just set a record in office of twelve months and 26 days, longer than any other French Premier of the Fourth Republic.

Born: Jan. 2, 1906, in Normandy, son of an impoverished weaver and a concierge in a savings bank (who still phones her son to complain of the "mean and wicked" things they say about him in the papers).

Education: Scholarship boy who got through to his B.A. by selling sheet music and singing songs (most spc-cessful: Ramona) on the quais of Le Havre; became lycéee...

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