Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bird baths & Bikes. On dusty tables and counters in the dark little shops lie Baccarat crystal, Sevres china, slightly used false teeth, kitchen gadgets, books, paintings, precious stones, carpets, birdbaths, old bicycle tires, bottles. A browser once found, between a bust and a bidet, Fragonard's painting, La Chemise Enlevée, and bought it for 20 francs; it is now worth millions of francs. Other lucky buyers uncovered original works sold in their impoverished days by Vlaminck, Cézanne, Utrillo, Modigliani...
...Jefferson High School band blared the Marseillaise, out stepped representatives of Paris' haute couture, Pommery champagne and Lanvin perfumes, plus the mayor of Dijon, which, like Dallas, spells its name with a big "D." Later, the emissaries from still more temples of luxury arrived−Chris-tolfe (silver), Baccarat (crystal), Fare (gloves). Altogether, some 120 top French business executives made the pilgrimage along with Cover Girl Marie-Hélène Arnaux, France's answer to U.S. Model Suzy Parker. Dallas was frankly overwhelmed. Oohed one Southern Methodist University coed: "Gee. I hardly know what...
Laced Martinis. Casino Royale poses an unlikely sounding situation and makes it hum with tension. British Agent Bond's job is to gamble against a corrupt French Communist trade union official at the baccarat table of a French casino until he breaks the Frenchman's bankroll and his power. He does, but five murders, a kidnaping, a grisly torture sequence and a suicide intervene before Bond can really call his mission accomplished. Author Fleming keeps his incidents and characters spinning through their paces like juggling balls. As for Bond, he might be Marlowe's younger brother except...
Died. Nicholas ("Nicky the Greek") Zographos,* 66, famed as the world's greatest professional gambler; of cancer; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Jockey-sized Card Ace Zographos, who entertained royalty on his yacht, ran baccarat banks at Cannes in the winter and at Deauville in summer. Win or lose, Zographos played it deadpan. Once, the wife of an automobile tycoon reportedly held his hand while he dropped a small fortune at baccarat. His hand, she remarked, did not tremble. "No," said he, "but I turn somersaults when I go to bed at night...
...homely activities made sense to the France that bred Antoine Pinay-not the American tourist's France of roasted chestnuts and rhinestoned poodles on the Champs-Ely-sées, "Allo darleeng" in the Place Pigalle, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent, bikinis at Biarritz and baccarat at Nice-but the provincial France of hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid, stucco-faced building...