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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1949
Page
6
A humor piece riffing on Monte Carlo gambling and European roulette with puns on French phrasing and renamed characters. It lampoons high stakes, glamor, and the idea of translating dice slang into French while imagining renamed figures as they might appear in a Europe of gamblers and belles.
Frau Ottilie Wesphal, a 71 year old Berlin resident, lost her husband in World War I and saw postwar inflation erase savings. She opened a small bakery in 1928 until 1934 when the Nazi regime closed it for political reasons. She later worked as a scrubwoman. during World War II an Allied raid destroyed her home and her only son fell at Stalingrad.
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