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...Hale and the children of Maillé were in Paris last week, having a wonderful time. In the restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, a beribboned youngster planted a big kiss on Mrs. Hale's cheek (see cut). The Angel of France could not have been happier...
...worked for both. Horst, one of the first photographers for whom she posed, recalls that she trembled with fear during her early sittings, but soon lost her stage fright, and became a top Paris, model. (She once posed in an evening gown while hanging on to the Eiffel Tower with one hand and one foot...
...strong to swell the nation's economy with $195 million worth of foreign exchange and provide the biggest tourist year since 1927. Every Sunday for two months 25,000 gawkers had shuffled through the Palace at Versailles to gape at the Sun King's old splendors. The Eiffel Tower had not had so many visitors since 1889. Bus tours that offered "Paris by night" (2,500 francs with champagne included) did a rushing business...
...France, Télévision Française transmits from atop the Eiffel Tower, and is housed in probably the most modern and best designed TV studio in the world. But French TV has been handicapped by one of those illogical conflicts common among the logical French. Manufacturers have refused to go into full-scale production until the government increases its program budget ($11,000 for all of 1948). The government refuses to telecast more programs until more people have sets. Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian...
...were the paintings-almost too successful. Dufy never lets nature trouble him; he uses it, like a seasoned chef making a salad. The fresh green of a hillside, the blue of the Mediterranean, the delicate lilt of a racing horse, the crisp lines of the Eiffel Tower, the smoke of a train or the plump pinkness of a nude are all equally his dish. Crippled with arthritis, he sometimes has to strap his brush to his hand but (like Renoir, who was also arthritic) he permits only pleasure and good taste to appear in his work...