Word: ch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Henry Gauthier-Villars, known in Paris literary circles as plain "Willy," met little Gabrielle Colette in Châtillon-Coligny, he was "completely stunned" by the sight of her long, braided hair and "airy grace." At their wedding dinner in 1893, 20-year-old Colette drank too much champagne and fell fast asleep over the table. "As I woke up, I heard my husband's voice...
...display of 163 ritual bronzes, semiabstractions of dragons and sundry monsters, mellowed by the patina of the centuries. It was the age of the pieces, dating back to the Yin dynasty, that most impressed the nonexpert art lovers. But it was their forms, especially one unique three-legged chüeh (wine goblet) of the Yin period, that delighted the connoisseurs. Said Florence's aged (89) art oracle, Expatriate Bernard Berenson: "The best collection of Chinese bronzes ever brought together under one roof in Europe...
...Senegalese professional grinned, and capered into a happy jig: "Au revoir chérie, la guerre est finie!" A French paratrooper sipped his Pernod: "In France they are happy tonight. I too am glad that no more will be killed-but there is nothing for us here to be proud of." And in Hanoi's sandbagged Citadelle, where once he had wept at the fall of Dienbienphu, General Cogny put his career on the line. "The free world has not lived up to its responsibilities," said Cogny. "There have been too many deaths for too few results, too many...
Married. Martine Carol, 29, whose bosomy pictures have made her the hottest film property in France (Caroline Chérie); and Christian-Jaque (real name: Christian Maudet), 41, her director; both for the second time; in Grasse, France...
...only over administrative affairs but also to get more than his share of the graft from the rich fur trade. He was far less pugnacious with the Indians. Eccles claims that in the critical year of 1681 Frontenac was afraid to meet the Iroquois ; he sat in his Quebec château and let the colony's outer defenses run down. "[Because of] his weakness and irresoluteness in the face of danger," Eccles says, "no river was safe any more, every portage was a potential ambush...