Word: cyr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maux had come back to civilian life from a Legion tour of duty in Algeria just as Rainier began conductor hunting. Born in northern France, Frémaux had studied piano briefly at Valenciennes Conservatory before World War II sent him into the Maquis. He went to St.-Cyr military academy at war's end, served in Indo-China under General LeClerc. The experience, he thinks, was not altogether foreign to a musical career: "I learned a lot from my years in Indo-China; it was my discovery of the world; I saw people and wars." He was tempted...
...soul as William Henry Pratt. Gypsy Rose Lee has done things that Rose Louise Hovick would presumably never do. Other real names seem to be struggling to express themselves. Merry Mickey Rooney was once Joe Yule Jr. Sam Goldwyn was Sam Goldfish. Shelley Winters was Shirley Schrift. Lili St. Cyr was Marie van Shaack. Diana Dors was Diana Fluck...
...after only one year at St.-Cyr (France's West Point), Salan went to the front, was wounded in action, won the Croix de guerre. After the war, he was sent to the French mandate of Syria and Lebanon just in time to be plunged into fighting against the Djebel Druse tribesmen and be wounded again. Next, he served in French Indo-China as administrator of a corner of jungle near the borders of China, Burma and Laos. In the solitude of his post. Salan dabbled in Oriental philosophy and astrology, is said to have experimented with opium. These predilections...
...named Victor. Unlike most, he recognized the responsibilities of parenthood. Dr. Georges Salan says proudly: "Raoul brought his illegitimate son home with him instead of abandoning him to his mother." Lieut. Victor Salan, now 26, and like his father a graduate of St.-Cyr, is studying nuclear-war tactics at St.-Maixent military school...
...legend rests on his occasional histrionic flashes. He broke bones in both hands thumping on the counsel table or the jury-box railing. Once, demonstrating a murder scene, he lay flat on the courtroom floor and continued his oration from that position. When he defended Stripper Lili St. Cyr on an indecent-exposure charge, he concealed his own paunchy frame in the allegedly diaphanous towel that had covered her on the night in question, so convulsing the jury that the case was laughed out of court. In his desk drawer he kept Lili's black lace panties...