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Letters Provide New Window Into Edith Piaf's Torrid Love Life
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsEdith Piaf fans will soon have a new window into the French singer's dramatic love life through a series of 54 letters she wrote to world champion cyclist Louis Gerardin between 1951 and 1952. Piaf's earlier affair with boxer Marcel Cerdan, who died in a plane crash in 1949 while en route to visit her in New York, is widely known. But far fewer people were aware of the torrid relationship she had two years later with Gerardin, also a married man. Stephane De Sakutin, AFP / Getty Images Love letters of French singer Edith Piaf are shown in May 2009 at Christie's auction house in ...
Haley Barbour's No-Regrets Style: Edith Piaf with a Mississippi Accent
By Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily"The name Mod Squad was not a reference to the 1960s TV show . . . but an acronym for 'Merchants of Death.' Since they were the chief spokespeople for the tobacco, alcohol and firearms industries, it seemed to fit." -- "Thank You for Smoking," by Christopher Buckley On my way to a Wednesday reporters' breakfast with two-term Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, I remembered that passage from one of the great comic novels about the malleable ethics of Washington. Three years after the Buckley satire was published in 1994, Barbour -- then a tobacco lobbyist -- snuck a $50-billion tax ...
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