Word: crillon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jean Lurçat, French tapestry artist, has a recurring dream. He is in Paris, walking across the Place de la Concorde toward the Hotel Crillon. Suddenly, the grey old Crillon is transformed before his eyes. The roof is covered with tapestries, the front groans with tapestries, the sides sag with tapestries. A cheering multitude salutes him. In a twinkling, Paris is smothered with tapestries-all by Lurçat. "Ah," grins Lurçat, "what a wonderful dream...
...most intimate thing [Russian U.N. Delegate Alexei Pavlov] ever said to me," she says, "was this year in Paris at my apartment in the Crillon. He brought Mr. Borsilov along, and as they were leaving, Mr. Borsilov lost his hat behind a chair. We walked to the door as he was searching for it, and Mr. Pavlov whispered quickly to me: "Do you like Tchaikovsky...
Last week Duchess Charlotte called a press conference in Paris' Hotel Crillon. Happily, one Guido Orlando-an itinerant Italian pressagent (U.S.-naturalized) who lists Aimee Semple McPherson, Huey Long and Rudolph Valentino among his onetime clients-was on hand. "Don't be embarrassed, duchess," he murmured, "go right ahead and tell the boys...