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Under the glass dome of Paris' Grand Palais last week, 830 auto and equipment makers gathered for the 46th Paris Automobile Salon, Europe's most important auto show. So eager were Frenchmen to see the new cars that Paris hotels were booked solid weeks in advance. What they saw were cars ranging from Italy's tiny $1,070 Vespa Deluxe to Rolls-Royce's most expensive model, the $26,000 Phantom V, designed for "important guests and executives," with a TV set, figured French walnut woodwork and air conditioning that adjusts automatically. There was also...
...grueling was the grind that only 65 of the 120 starters, Europe's best bicycle racers, were able to finish, and at the end of 24 days and 2,680 miles of plain and mountain, the victory in the 46th annual Tour de France went to an iron-legged, 137-lb. Spaniard named Federico Baha-montes, 31, who had never before won a major international bike race...
...insistence of Negro legislators, Maryland last week became the 46th state to ratify the 91-year-old, Reconstruction era 14th Amendment, leaving California, Kentucky still to come...
...crowds every night (Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Henry V). The troupe expects to wind up its 25-week U.S. tour next month with total grosses of $1,200,000. And British Actor Sir John Gielgud, in a one-man tour de force (see THEATER), nearly filled the 1,300-seat 46th Street Theater nightly with recitations from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, grossed $30,000 his first week...
...celebrate the opening of the rebuilt, 1,401-seat Lunt-Fontanne Theatre-first legitimate playhouse addition to Broadway in 31 years-Actress Helen Hayes, who has a theater named for her right across 46th Street, joined hands with Veteran Troupers Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne under the marquee, presented them with sisterly kisses and a gushing essay in metamorphosis: "This commemorates the moment when the two most beautiful people in the world become the most beautiful theater in the world." Appropriately, the Lunts open the theater dubbed in their honor this week with a play called The Visit-their 37th...