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Louis XIII furniture is much like the King's rule: cosmopolitan, craftsman-like and built for the ages. The second of the Bourbons, he ruled from 1610 to 1643 (a reign that roughly parallels England's Early Jacobean period), generated the power that elevated France into the splendor of the baroque. It was a period that saw both the dissolving of the parlements and the founding of the Académic Française...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiques: A Straighter Bourbon | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...least three other departments should ask immediate Faculty authorization to set up foreign study programs. In History, Government, and Social Studies there are numerous students who plan Senior theses on European topics and who possess sufficient grasp of a foreign language to benefit from education abroad. In its own cosmopolitan way, of course, Harvard is strikingly provincial, and we expect there will be a flury of indignant questions: Why should anyone think he can learn more in Europe than at Harvard? Why let people fritter away a year at a lax foreign university? How can a student afford to miss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sweetbriar, and Not Harvard? | 11/14/1964 | See Source »

...negotiating to open outlets, and another 13 banks have recently been incorporated. Says Lebanese Banking Association President Pierre Edde, whose growing Beirut Riyadh Bank is moving into a new ten-story building: "Beirut handles capital like the Suez Canal handles ships." Saud & Hussein. Because it is both the cosmopolitan gateway to the Middle East and an island of stability in a newly rich but eternally turbulent region, Beirut has become the prudent banker to nervous kings, African smugglers, such huge U.S. oil companies as Aramco, frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt and Iraq-and no fewer than 600 tycoons from booming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Beirut: The Suez of Money | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...pages, young writers early discovered a consistent welcome-a fact due in part to the Atlantic's incapacity to pay rates that would attract established authors. Fifty Grand, the first Hemingway story to be published by a major U.S. magazine, appeared in the Atlantic in 1927-after Cosmopolitan, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and Scribner's had turned it down. Unwilling to rely solely on the editorial vision of literary agents, the Atlantic carefully read every unsolicited manuscript, a habit that persists to this day. "We publish more unsolicited material than any other national periodical," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Insurance Against Lapidify | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

CATERINA VALENTE (London) sings one of the spate of new recordings glorifying the World's Fair City. Happen to Like New York. Caterina, who was born in Paris and can sing in eleven languages, has just the right cosmopolitan shimmer in her voice to make the compliment mean something, and she refreshes songs like Take the A" Train and Lullaby of Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Jun. 19, 1964 | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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