People: People, May 29, 1950

Old Sweet Song

Bearded Author Elliot (The Last Time I Saw Paris) Paul brooded, in the current Atlantic, on Paris' modern grisette: "The female denizen of the [Latin] Quarter, vintage 1950, is slender, supple and strong. The calves of her legs . . . indicate . . . that for years she has gone from place to place on bicycles . . . She is not consumptive, like Mimi . . . She does as she likes . . . When she takes a fancy to a poor young man . . . it is...

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