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Endlessly he defended "provincial autonomy." But Duplessis' continuing squabble with Canada's federal government over tax apportionment, his refusal to let the Trans-Canada Highway go through Quebec, his refusal to allow Quebec universities to accept sorely needed federal grants, made much sense in French Canada. Quebec, over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Le Chef Is Dead | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Competition for Chopin. The Cook Book may give a little trouble to brides who can't afford expensive ingredients or don't know their way about a kitchen. Alice assumes that her readers not only have money but know how to make dough and can keep several other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dish Is a Dish Is a Dish | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Tired out from a hard day of counting his money, Baron Scipion du Roure was strolling along Promenade des Anglais in Nice one afternoon when he bumped into an old acquaintance, Inspector Raymond Alberto of the Nice police force. Over pernods, the inspector grew confidential and unfolded an amazing tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bamboozling the Baron | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

The conference even had a code name -"Metric." Said a disappointed French delegate after the conference: "We regarded it as a hopeful sign that the British, who usually insist on measuring things with their feet, invented this code name 'Metric'; we thought they were coming over to continental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Spurs to Action | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

. . . Now tell me on what grounds (literary or others) dare you compare Bernanos' book to Hitler's? What have these two books, these two men, in common? You imply, rather you indeed say, that the Lettre aux Anglais is a raving book, a quixotic book, but of "greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1942 | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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