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...Philadelphia Orchestra finished playing The Yellow River Concerto in Peking last September, Conductor Eugene Ormandy signaled for the composer to share the bows. Out came two men and two women. To a Westerner listening to the work, the four might just as well have been Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Cécile Chaminade and Joan Baez. Actually, they were a committee from the Central Philharmonic Society of the People's Republic of China, perhaps the country's foremost composer. The event was the highlight of the Philadelphia's tour of China, the first such by an American orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chinese Schmalz | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

Born. To Cécile Dionne Langlois, 24, second of the four surviving Dionne quints to marry (the first: Annette), first to become a mother, and Television Technician Philippe Langlois, 27: a son, their first; in Montreal. Name: Claude. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...with telephoto lenses. For days, everyone who entered or left the house was filmed. Separating the legitimate tenants from a recurring stream of Algerians, the police narrowed their search to a two-room flat on the fifth floor, rented by a 28-year-old French girl named Cécile Decugis, a cinema technician who had once worked in Tunisia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fight with the Octopus | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...thought-out program, half-carried-out, half in the hands of a halftime, half-hearted President." He would be pleased if keynoting should put him in the limelight as a vice-presidential possibility. Unquestionable aid in any projected campaign: his pretty blonde wife ("I want you to know 'Cile; once you know her, you'll like me"), three good-looking children-Robert. 12; Frank Jr., 6; James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: DEMOCRATS' KEYNOTER | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...Tell me." he entreated, "if we slipped out, do you think the public would notice?" Cécile claims to possess the "majesty" and "wildness" of a lioness, and finds it natural to describe herself as "the Victory of Woman, of Spring-just Victory." As the applause rained down on her entrances and exits, she wondered: "Was it possible that I was so much loved?" Every reader will know the answer: Yes, by Cécile Sorel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Belles | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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