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As the dread African Goums marched into the Place de la Concorde, ending the great Resistance Day parade, the unity that the Resistance had brought France seemed to falter. Young hotheads started yelling: "Vive De Gaulle! De Gaulle to power!" A Parisian moblet caught the fever, broke police lines. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Georges Bidault's Week | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

For two hours students, angry at the postponement, paraded through the Latin Quarter throwing cherry pits at cops, who struck back with rolled-up capes. Hundreds stormed the Education Ministry, demanding an explanation. Said an official: there had been corruption in the Ministry. For a promised (but undelivered) 10,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exams for Sale | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Trailing their crimson capes, 28 high prelates* came forward one by one to kiss the Pope's foot and be embraced, came forward again to receive their cardinals' hats (which rested only a few seconds on their heads and will never again be worn or used until they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Peter's City | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Charwomen and Queens. Peer Gynt's social glitter was in sharp contrast to the audiences the Old Vic had been used to -the long-haired, sandaled Bohemians, the cockneys, charwomen and ancients in Inverness capes who sat raptly on hard wooden benches and glared at anyone who even shuffled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Vic in New Quarters | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

The Fine Points. Few of the U.S. citizens, except established residents in Mexico, understand the fine points of the spectacle. In the first scene the peones (matador's helpers) drag their capes before the newly entered bull and flee behind the barrier as he charges. Having studied the bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Bad Season for Bulls | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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