SINGS OF AGE
CLEMENCEAU AT 87 SOME ECCENTRICITIES Au3trallsn Eresa Assßdation.. : PAEia^ 29th< September. "Tiger" Clemeneeau^ the man. of iron and vigpur, ia showing signs of Ms S7 years. He is getting thin and stooped. Cerebrating his birthday at La Ten* d'ae,. he made his asual pilgrrmago <to Ms future gra,ve, wMcn1 is a mere yawning» neglected h!ole v in which his. fatßer was buried years ago, after stipulating that nobody should interfera witfctito work- of Nature-, so the grave is fring-ed",-with a. tangle of. weeds- Nearby is an old fisherman's hut, in which Cte> j menceau spends his. holidays,,' behind, iai rf^Lg of barbed wire, erected ta exclude- tourists. An American camera girl yesterday rfsled the entanglements, jin which she became hopelessly mixed up; Her cries brought 5L Clemencean7, who feigned anger, and said^'Tor your curiosity you can stay th«re until tontorrow;*' but he soon sent a. gardener to extricate the : inquisitive Americai
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 69, 1 October 1928, Page 9
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154SINGS OF AGE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 69, 1 October 1928, Page 9
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