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OPPRESSED BASQUES Saint-Jean-de-Luz Basses-Pyrénées...
...child of four, Landowska expressed herself on the piano while other children were learning to talk. Her first teacher, recognizing her precocious virtuosity, let her play whatever music pleased her. But "a stern, dry man" took his place, and "my delightful roamings through the gavottes and bourrées of Bach were at an end." She was very unhappy. "I dream only one thing, when I am grown to play only Bach, Haydn and Mozart." She sealed this vow in an envelope, to be opened "when I am a big girl. But I opened it the next day, of course...
...Then the story of America will be repeated on tom-toms of the African jungle, in the gossip of Arab bazaars, under the shady trees of the Champs Elysées, in the temples and along the holy rivers of the East. The ring of truth around the world will drown the strident lies of Moscow's propaganda. One hundred years ago America was the wonder of humanity and the symbol of man's hopes and goals everywhere...
...companies of northwestern Colombia, the Motilon Indians of the jungle-tangled mountains are an industrial hazard. The Motilones (mo-tee-loan-es) ambush trucks, shoot 6-ft. arrows through the oilmen's tents-and sometimes through the oilmen. What is worse, they give the oilworkers' union a hard-to-answer argument for extra hazard...
Texas Week. Paris, their favorite city, seemed like home. Whether strolling the Champs-Elysées, primping at Elizabeth Arden's, or downing Martinis ("Très sec, avec le Gordon's gin") at Harry's New York Bar, they would always find some familiar face. They took their cigars and baby Brownies into Sacré-Coeur, climbed to the top of Notre Dame, brushed shoulders with Bohemia in cellar nightclubs on the Left Bank, gave free advice to street artists painting in Montmartre. They drove down the Loire valley searching out new restaurants...