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...balding French Corsican with an avuncular manner, was merely the proprietor of the Paris-Nice motel and café near Paraguay's somnolent capital city of Asuncion. To various international law-enforcement agencies, however, Ricord was much better known as the owner of a string of aliases (Mr. André, Lucien Darguelles, "El Comandante") and a police record that includes a bust for theft in prewar Marseille, a 1950 French conviction as a "dangerous" wartime Gestapo agent, and links in more recent years with prostitution in Argentina and Venezuela. Not long ago, Ricord picked up a new moniker: among...
...owns the echoing words of Charles de Gaulle? For years Reporter André Passeron of Paris' Le Monde trailed the general, copying down speeches, comments, even jokes. Published in two fat volumes, the results pleased De Gaulle so much that he mastered his dislike for journalists long enough to receive Passeron for 45 minutes. After De Gaulle's death in 1970, Passeron issued another volume containing 85 pages of quotations, including some that had become politically embarrassing. The book irked De Gaulle's son Philippe and daughter Elisabeth so much that they brought suit, insisting that...
Conductor André Kostelanetz figured that it might be fun to get together with his exwife, Soprano Lily Pons-at least for a concert. With Kostelanetz on the podium of Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall and Pons at 68 looking frightened and fragile, nostalgic fans found that time has left a bit of dust on Lily's middle voice but that the famous high tones are still silvery. After a soaring Estrellita, Lily got a standing ovation, then dodged her well-wishers and headed straight...
...good measure, Tsiranana also imprisoned his own vice president, André Resampa, who was becoming uncomfortably powerful. Earlier this year, Tsiranana was re-elected unopposed to a third term. In Tulear province, where the rebellion had taken place, the official ballot counters solemnly reported that not a single citizen had voted against...
...accent and the owl-like stare through horn-rims the size of old Bentley headlights have become almost as much a part of the London myth as Twiggy. But a serious painter lurks behind the ruffle of publicity, and Hockney's new show, at New York's André Emmerich Gallery, demonstrates how wiry and controlled his talent...