Word: andre
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...million. But in recent years it has become increasingly apparent that King Louis' builders valued surface splendor above sturdiness. In 1925, John D. Rockefeller Jr. went to Versailles' rescue with $1,360,000, most of which was used to repair the 27 acres of roofs. Last week André Cornu, under secretary of fine arts, warned that unless the government can raise another $15 million for repairs* the palace may go to pieces without much further warning...
...Versailles' sad state: inadequate gutters to lead off rainwater, and jerry-built interiors. Seepage has rotted away the wooden beams supporting the parqueted floors, loosened the gold and plaster ceilings which are nailed precariously to deteriorating laths. "It is like a house of cards," says Government Architect André Japy. "If one part begins collapsing, everything else will follow. It is no longer a question of repairing one part of the building; everything must be restored...
...contrast to the days when Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Ribbentrop and Himmler were among the festival bigwigs, this year's list of honored guests is heavy with Americans, Britons and Frenchmen. Among them: Allied High Commissioners John J. McCloy, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, André François-Poncet. All festival tickets were gone a month ago (best seats: $11.90 a performance...
Harvard's husky ANDRÉ MORIZE, 66, dean of French literature professors in the U.S. In 1917, scholarly André Morize (he published the first critical edition of Candide) arrived at Harvard as a dashing French lieutenant assigned to teach trench warfare to ROTC students, stayed on to make a career of teaching literature. With time out only to serve as a director in France's commissariat of information early in World War II ("You're pure," said Commissioner Jean Giraudoux, who appointed him. "You don't know anybody"), "Le Beau André" has remained...
Capriccio Brillant (by George Balanchine; music by Mendelssohn) is an elegant bit of fluff designed mainly for Balanchine's top dancers, Maria Tallchief and André Eglevsky, who present a brisk, polished "improvisation" on the music...