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...film concerns an innocent small town boy, the clean-living Charles, who comes to Paris to study law and stays with his city cousin, Paul. Gerard Blain and Jean-Claude Brialy do their best to make these young men believable, but though there is somewhat more to the plot than the tale of the country mouse and the city mouse, there is not much more in the way of palpable characters...
...clever, mildly depressing study of France's I-got-it-beat generation. Made for $160,000 by a 27-year-old film critic named Claude Chabrol, the film offers a switch on the story of the city mouse (Jean-Claude Brialy) and the country mouse (Gérard Blain). In this case the city mouse is really a rat. Enrolled in law school, he seldom attends classes, spends his time shacking up with "can't-say-no girls," arranging for abortions, curing one hangover and planning the next. When the country cousin, a nice boy not too bright...
Destroyer. Crab grass, dandelions and other weeds can be cleaned out in about five days by using a new weed killer just put on sale in Canada by Inventor Robert Blain of Calgary. A 2-ft., lipsticklike bar composed of raw wax, crude oil and 2, 4-D, Blain's Weedmaster Block is merely dragged once over the lawn to coat the grass with weed killer. Price of a 4-lb. bar, enough to protect about 4,000 sq. ft. of grass for two years...
...Executive Board of the Harvard Glee Club yesterday elected Craig F. Swoboda '57, of Lowell House, and Judd Blain '57 of Winthrop to the offices of manager and assistant manager, respectively. The new officers will take over immediately...
Cosmopolite. In Paris, 60-year-old Rene Blain, a retired colonial administrator, was forgiven when he explained to the judge that riding cowcatchers was not frowned on in Madagascar...