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...kind of shocked ribaldry. JACKIE, HOW COULD YOU? headlined Stockholm's Expressen. "Nixon has a Greek running mate," cracked Bob Hope, "and now everyone wants one." Said a former Kennedy aide: "She's gone from Prince Charming to Caliban." In a more sober vein, French Political Commentator Andr?? Fontaine wrote in Le Monde: "Jackie, whose staunch courage during John's funeral made such an impression, now chooses to shock by marrying a man who could be her father and whose career contradicts?rather strongly, to say the least?the liberal spirit that animated President Kennedy...
...Painting in France, 1900-1967," an exhibit of 150 paintings assembled by the French government at the behest of the U.S.'s International Exhibitions Foundation, is an ambitious attempt on the part of Culture Minister Andr?? Malraux to demonstrate that, as one of his minions puts it, France in the arts is still capable of "inventing the future." The proof is uphill work, for (non-French) authorities agree that, while Paris blazed the trails prior to World War II, since then the leadership has migrated across the Atlantic. Nonetheless, France can still claim a few pioneers in the realm...
...firm tow of the grandmotherly Mme. de Gaulle. Trailing behind her black bubbletop Citroen were her mother-in-law, Rose Kennedy, her sister, Princess Radziwill, Sister-in-Law Eunice Shriver, and a bevy of lesser ladies in waiting. At the Jeu de Paume Museum, French Minister for Culture Andr?? Malraux whisked her past the collection of impressionist paintings in a breakneck 45 minutes. "I have just seen the most beautiful paintings in the world," gasped Jackie as she returned to the rain-splashed street. (Her favorite: Olympia, a reclining nude by Manet...
...delegates Swanson and Woolley met their two colleagues at Geneva last week, a swarm of nearly 1,000 delegates and representatives of other nations were also converging on League headquarters. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi headed the Italian delegation. Andr?? Tardieu led the Frenchmen. Chairman of the whole Conference was sober "Uncle Arthur" Henderson of Britain. Hopeful and variously important personages crammed every hotel room in Geneva which had erected a special building for the Conference and presented it to the League...
...Died. Andr?? Maginot, 54, French Minister of War; of typhoid fever; in Paris. His most famed phrase: "The strength of the French army is the best guarantee of the people of Europe...