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Last week's $2,000 top prize went to a competent 56-year-old second-rater named Edouard Goerg, whose Nativity with Birds was as sweet and fuzzy as spun candy. The second prize ($1,500), third prize ($1,000), and seven $750 honorable mentions all went to painters who were comparatively unknown in the U.S. Next autumn, Goerg's prizewinner will be brought to Manhattan to compete with U.S. entries for a $3,500 grand prize...
Died. Count Jacques Edouard de Sieyes, 58, French diplomat (General de Gaulle's personal wartime representative in the U.S.) and business executive (Patou perfume); by drowning in the River Seine, Paris; reportedly by his own hand, because of financial worries...
...small, green-carpeted room of San Francisco's Bank of America, one of the biggest sugar deals in West Coast history was quietly sealed. Last week, for $5,250,000, husky, handsome Charles Edouard de Bretteville, 36, and associates announced that they had picked up the choicest pieces of the disintegrating J.D. & A.B. Spreckels companies, a sprawling empire founded by bearded Claus Spreckels in 1863, which once held some 50 companies worth $60 million...
...after hearing some piano preludes, songs from Porgy and Bess and An American in Paris, topped off by a rousing Rhapsody in Blue, Cannes connoisseurs found good Gershwin good enough for them. They let Conductor Horenstein & Co. know it with six noisy curtain calls. Concluded old Cannes Critic Edouard Berthier: "When you write that kind of music, you don't have to imitate anybody...
British fear of French "instability" is not confined to economics. Many British officials suspect that France's desire for Western Union is merely an outgrowth of the "Third Force" movement. Edouard Herriot and Leon Blum, the leaders of France's drive for a European parliament, are also prophets of the Third Force-the middle man. The British fear that men like Herriot and Blum would try to turn Western Union from a militant anti-Communist federation into a bloc which would pursue the illusion of neutrality between Russia and the West...