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...last ten years the government has promised the Sorbonne that it could some day have the huge (2.700,000 sq. ft.) Halle aux Vins for a new science center. But for ten years nothing at all has happened. "The wine merchants," says an official of the University Teachers' Federation, "are fighting a delaying action against us, and they seem very successful. What France needs is scientists, not alcoholics...
...Vuillard's At the Tuileries for $70,000, and Toulouse-Lautrec's Aux Ambassadeurs, Gens Chics for $95,000, went to Manhattan's Carstairs Gallery...
...face and skull certainly had a somewhat apelike cast, but his brain was as big as that of many modern men. It gave him, for one thing, the emotional ability to form a kind of religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave has a vault of flat stones to protect the dead man. Beside it are flint tools and a haunch of meat for the dead man's needs. No mere brute, said Dr. Eiseley, could have such tender concern for the dead...
...Budapest in the lost era between the two world wars, it begins with a casual pickup on the Danube Corso and ends in heartbreak as poignant as the last act of Camille. The book, like the play, is about a girl with tuberculosis, but Author Boros' Dame aux Camélias is no languishing tragedienne drowning in a sea of self-sacrifice. Instead, young Lalla is self-sufficient, cheeky, preoccupied not with "how to live but how to stay alive...
...Paris, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau demonstrated that his talents are not limited to diplomacy when he published his third volume of fairy tales, L'Ourse aux Pattons Verts (The Lady Bear with the Little Green Paws), a group of stories about romantic princesses ready for marriage, fish that talk and a lady bear named Clementine, who is dedicated to an ancient Gallic ideal: liberty...