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Salute & Make Way. As the citizens of Salgueiro worked it out for this week's show, the story of Chica starts with six dancers dressed as colonial gentlemen, prancing down the street bearing a banner: "The Académicos of Salgueiro salute the people and the press and ask to make way to present the 1963 Carnival with their theme, Chica da Silva." Then come 20 men carrying gold-headed canes, wearing silk suits, suede shoes and derby hats. Behind them appear six groups of dancers, twirling, singing and high-stepping in gold buckles, white knee stockings and wigs...
...Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand...
...Paris, it took but a single ballot to elect Novelist-Journalist Joseph Kessel, 64, to the rarefied ranks of the Académic Française A byliner for Paris' France-Soir and author of the international bestseller The Lion, grey-maned Kessel is the first reporter ever to win a seat in the Academic. His election drew indignant grumbles from a fellow academician. Legion of Honor Commander Henry Bordeaux, who wrote the Academic protesting the entry of "this Kessel, who has lived such a dissolute life...
Last week the dispute came to open warfare. The first barrage was laid down by Biologist Jean Rostand, 65, who reputedly knows more about frogs than any man alive, and who had been elected to Herriot's vacant seat in the Académie Française. Wearing the academy's braided uniform and cocked hat and with a sword dangling awkwardly at his side, Rostand, as custom requires, used his acceptance speech to eulogize the academician whose place he took. Herriot's last moments, according "to certain witnesses," said Rostand, were not "in harmony with...
...only a great beauty but a great lady, among whose descendants are some of France's leading critics, writers and scientists, including the present family head, Maurice, Due de Broglie and his brother, Nobel Prizewinner Prince Louis de Broglie, both atomic physicists and members of the Académic Francaise...