Word: auriolism
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...President of France did not say a word as the results came in; he just grinned. Plump Vincent Auriol was an old campaigner himself. "Toward the end," a member of his staff confided, "he was giggling." In Rio de Janeiro, 0 Mundo, called Harry Truman's victory "the most sensational news since the launching of the atomic bomb." In London (though U.S. shares dipped), British stocks went up. London's socialist Tribune took credit for not being too greatly surprised, republished a July cartoon showing Harry Truman feeling fine...
Good for the Heart. Elizabeth had a busy weekend-presentation by President Vincent Auriol of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, a gala evening at the opera, a speech to read on Franco-British unity. Said she: "If we are to escape destruction, we must work for the breakdown of prejudices born of narrow-minded nationalism." Her French was excellent. Said a bystander: "She speaks much better than Churchill."* But Philip, who occasionally neglects royalty's duty to look cheerful, listened somewhat gloomily. There were breaks in the official routine. One night Elizabeth and Philip danced until...
...most heavily official and fashionable of all art shows-the spring Salon-opened last week in Paris' Right Bank Palais de New York. Ten thousand people, led by the President of France, Vincent Auriol, jammed through the halls on opening day. Some of them found their neighbors' gowns more attractive than the pictures. The acres of art on exhibition (2,000 paintings, 200 pieces of sculpture) were almost uniformly slick, deft and academic...
...week's end, with Nice already drunk with jazz, the international festival reached a shattering finale in Nice's Hotel Negresco with all of the bands blaring in turn. (Satchmo Armstrong was presented with a Sévres vase sent by France's President Vincent Auriol...
Deploring the "cold war" at an Anglo-American Press Association lunch, M. Auriol called it la guerre perlee. Since the '20s, Frenchmen have referred to a slowdown strike as une greve perlee (literally, a drop-by-drop strike). Thus, la guerre perlee means the "drop-by-drop war." Connoisseurs predicted that the French press would snap...