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Last week France, which recently had trouble choosing a President of the Republic, had to pick an Assembly president. Grand old (81) Edouard Herriot, crippled by phlebitis, had declined the job which he has ably filled since 1947. (The Assembly thereupon made him its honorary president, the first in French history, and will let him keep quarters in the Palais Bourbon...
...could not be equaled in any museum outside of Spain. Pieter Bruegel's ecstatically tranquil Harvesters dominated one room. Caravaggio's Musicians another. In the galleries devoted to modern painters. Pablo Picasso's peaceful Woman in White, recently acquired from the Museum of Modern Art, and Edouard Manet's great, sea-fresh Boating were standouts...
Another prominent Frenchman who feels the same way is Edouard Daladier, the old appeaser of Munich, who belongs to the moderately right-wing Radical Socialists. The French Communists used to have no epithets harsh enough for Daladier ("gravedigger" and "traitor" were among the mildest), but L'Humanité, the Communist daily, is now respectfully calling him "Monsieur Daladier." Neither Daladier nor De Gaulle has any Communist leanings; for the purposes of the Communists, it is better that they...
...Edouard Harriot, one of the grand old men of French politics, had come at last to the end of a political road. Weighed down by age (81) and his legs crippled by phlebitis, he could no longer climb without help to the chair of the President (Speaker) of France's Assembly. For more than a month, he did not appear at all. Last week his deputy read a message from...
...Salesmanship. Rosenberg started his art-buying career at 18 when he went to England for his father, a successful Paris art dealer. Among his first wise investments were two Van Gogh drawings for $20 each. Edouard Manet's Portrait of Victorine Meurend for $200. (In 1928, Rosenberg rebought the picture for $40,000, sold it again at a profit. It now hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Art). At 20, he took over his father's Paris salon. By paying better prices than competing dealers, Rosenberg kept artists like Picasso, Matisse, Braque and others in his stable...