Word: berard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeed." His family laughed, moved to Paris and tried to train him to be a diplomat. Instead, Christian plunged into the arty life of Paris of the '20s. Velvet-collared, bowler-hatted and rich, Christian hobnobbed with advanced musicians like Poulenc and Satie, artists like Jean Cocteau, Christian Berard and Salvador Dali, opened an art gallery with his father's financial backing...
...famed French Sculptor Auguste Rodin, Odile changed her surname from Berard...
...Larry's father asked him to repeat his conversation with President Eisenhower, the boy said stiffly that he considered it "private and off the record." But after a little fatherly persuasion Larry explained that he told the President he had a note from his mother to Mrs. Frances Berard, fourth-grade teacher at John Eaton School, asking that he be excused for tardiness on this special occasion. That seemed to satisfy the President. He released the boy, grinned and said goodbye before he walked away...
When Larry presented his note to Mrs. Berard (25 minutes late), she had him give a five-minute newscast on his experience to his classmates. Their comment on Larry's adventure: "Pretty nifty...
...owner encouraged Greco and her band to continue to make it their headquarters. "The proprietor saw in us a sign of the era," says Singer Greco. So did some of Tabou's guests. To Le Tabou came the existentialists and their friends-Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Christian Berard, Albert Camus and Jean Cocteau. They dubbed Greco and her band "Les Rats des Caves," fed and clothed them. Cocteau gave Greco a small part in his film Orpheus. In 1949 she launched her singing career...