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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...
...military men in Paris had two quick preliminary meetings. While some of his aides went dancing on Montmartre, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, burned the midnight oil in his suite at the Crillon Hotel. At the final, plenary meeting, in the Navy Ministry, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson presided in a sky-blue satin chair, before a cheerful blaze of oak logs. It took just four hours (including changes of spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called...
American buyers last week thronged thirstily around the bars at the Ritz and Crillon, gossiped knowingly of new, narrowed skirts, shorter day dresses and a new emphasis on black, green and yellow. Then, five days before the show, 12,000 of Paris' 20,000 midinettes* laid down their needles and flounced out on what was probably France's most popular strike of the year...