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...rock crystal Easter egg rimmed with diamonds and topped with a rare 27-carat Siberian emerald. By twisting the emerald and peeking into the egg, the Czarina could see twelve gold-framed miniatures of her favorite palaces, radiating from a thin gold axis...
Gene Kelly, trying out a new dance routine at home, missed his footing, fell, broke his right ankle, had to bow out of Hollywood's Easter Parade. To help a pal, Fred Astaire, who very loudly removed his dancing shoes last year, happily bounded out of retirement into Kelly's role. Said bald Hoofer Fred about retirement: "I'll always talk about it, but I'll probably never...
...Power by Easter. Meanwhile De Gaulle had reached the climax of a 16-month political campaign. Cried he: "The future belongs to those who want to grasp it... ." At a by-election in the Canton of Isigny. Department of Calvados, the R.P.F. candidate polled 2,438 votes against a combined Socialist-Communist vote of only 909. Cabled TIME Correspondent André Laguerre...
...Gaulle expects to return to power by next Easter at the latest. He thinks the economic crisis may oblige him to return this winter. He would rather not take over before Christmas, when conditions are likely to be at their worst, but is willing to do so if that will keep out the Communists...
...company 15,000 Ibs. a month of four different kinds of rayon yarn. Only the textile industry knew what that condition meant: an extreme improbability. By last week, rayon yarn was so scarce that the scramble for it made the 1946 nylon search look like an Easter-egg hunt...