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...years as France's Ambassador to the U.S., Henri Bonnet has developed a great admiration for the U.S. press. Last week, on the eve of his retirement and return to France, 66-year-old Ambassador Bonnet good-naturedly told members of Washington's National Press Club...
...Coffin became president of Union Theological Seminary. "Uncle Harry," as his students called him, campaigned for the great liberal causes that are safe and almost old-hat today, but which then still suggested the revolutionary's bonnet: internationalism, equality among the races, unity among Protestant sects, a common spiritual front among Protestants, Jews and Roman Catholics. Sometimes he went to extremes (e.g., he favored euthanasia), but he served to show that religion was not reactionary or doctrinaire or dead...
...envelopes, containing briefing notes, in front of him on the table. Dulles sat opposite, with only a clean scratchpad at his place. Throughout the discussions Mendès listened with wrenlike intensity, speaking almost entirely in English (more than once he barked out a French phrase to Ambassador Henri Bonnet, who supplied the English for him). Dulles often doodled or whittled on a pencil as the conversations lengthened...
...left ear. Webb thought it best to go away for awhile. For two years he worked in Hamilton, Ohio, and made his name there slashing off a man's ear in a fight. He came back often, disguised sometimes in his 80-year-old mother's pink bonnet and skirts. This spring he thrust away all fear and came home for good. "They run me home, and that's as far as I'm going," he said...
Like a Gypsy. Records are expensive in France, but some of Bechet's are top sellers at about 30,000-100,000 copies each. Among his titles: As-Tu le Cafard? (Have You Got the Blues?) and Mets ton Vieux Bonnet Gris (Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet...