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...week visit to the U.S. left French Author François Sagan, 31, with a certain smile. "In America, they trust you," she wrote in the weekly Candide. "They will lend you their cars, their apartments, anything. They are so open that it's troubling. The taxi driver tells you his life story, salesgirls call you 'honey.'" Hélas, she also found much tristesse: "Americans are afraid, afraid of everything, especially of losing their position, of being sick, of not being able to pay their installments on time. And of their redoubtable women they are afraid...
...Gazing. High flyers in the Continental set are also becoming addicted to the stars. A favorite society astrologer is lissome "Cappy" Badrutt, the California-born wife of the proprietor of the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, who has done horoscopes for Rita Hayworth, Paris Vogue Editor-in-Chief François de Langlade, the Aga Khan, Mrs. Herbert von Karajan, and Baroness Thyssen. Cappy says that a growing number of businessmen are also interested in the practice, because "in these times of uncertainty, people are groping for an answer...
...Devil's Instinct." The same kind of response is beginning to hit the U.S. Françoise has a couple of pages of photographs in December's Vogue, and she has been shot for Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Look and Esquire. And that is undoubtedly just the beginning. Her first major U.S. film, Grand Prix, premièred last week in Manhattan. Her role as a race-circuit follower consists of little more than ten walk-on scenes, but she walks off with every one of them...
...Françoise Hardy is perhaps the newest and prettiest star from France, but she says that she can't sing or act-and "to pick up a mirror is to become demoralized." Her modesty is becoming, and her countrymen obviously forgive her. At 22, she sells more recordings than any other French songbird; she has been put into films with some success by Vadim, and only men become demoralized by her figure...
...this feminine force de frappe, Françoise is right when she insists that she really is not a singer of unusual gifts or an actress at all. "The only time I'm good," she says, "is when I'm playing myself." But what an ineffable presence that self is. Painter Bernard Buffet saw her on TV in 1962 and immediately told his wife: "This girl is Electra in a black raincoat. Tomorrow all the French girls will want to look like her, to sing her song." Bruno Coquatrix, director of Paris' most coveted show case...