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...over.* Labor had won. The Commons rejected the most important of the Lords' amendments, sent back the entire bill with the traditional Norman French notation: "Ceste bille est remise aux seigneurs avecque des raisons" (i.e., returned to the Lords for further debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Lords v. the Commons | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze statuette of St. Michel, went to René Clair's French Le Silence Est d'Or (Man About Town), starring Maurice Chevalier. A special award went to Roberto (Open City) Rossellini's Italian Paisa (Country Town). French Gerard Philipe was honored as the year's best actor for his work in Le Diable au Corps (The Devil Inside). And Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oscars Abroad | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...official scapegoat of the republic." Later, he presented a piece of paper to the judge. "Your Honor, permit me to offer you my latest sonnet. It is entitled 'The Madman.' I have dedicated it to you." To most accusations of collaboration he replied: "Ce n'est que de la crême fouettée" ("It's nothing but whipped cream," i.e., baloney). Had he not belonged to Déat's group? Snapped Bourin: "Zero for the question. I was always against Déat. But I love uniforms. I had only been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Proudhon Spelled Backwards | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare de l'Est...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: They're Off! | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...reviewed before were Hassler's Cantate Domino, a clean-cut, buoyant piece of beautiful harmonies, and Nanino's Diffusa est Gratia, a lovely tapestry of sound. Both were served up very nicely. The other, now-familiar selections by Carter, Thomson, Purcell, and Handed do not suffer from a lack of wooden or plastic concert hall confines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 5/7/1947 | See Source »

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