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...rapid decline in the famed politesse française has been speeded by too many cars competing with each other on an inadequate road system. Parking is so nightmarish that it has become a Parisian cliché to say "Shall we walk, or do we have time to take the car?" As fisticuffs and frustrations pile up, the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné observed: "What's needed is not a driver's license but a hunting license." The official police publication Liaisons, groping for the psychological roots of the problem, observed that in motorists there...
Divorced. Dick Haymes, 47, World War II vintage crooner who made more than $4,000,000 but declared himself bankrupt in 1960 after dividing it between Uncle Sam, his agents and his first four wives (No. 4: Rita Hay worth); by Fran Jeffries, 25, nightclub singer and sometime actress; on grounds of extreme cruelty (he was jealous of her rising career, she said): after six years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...ruled from 1610 to 1643 (a reign that roughly parallels England's Early Jacobean period), generated the power that elevated France into the splendor of the baroque. It was a period that saw both the dissolving of the parlements and the founding of the Académic Française...
LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Françoise Gilot. Picasso's penultimate mistress tells in bitterly frank detail of her nine turbulent years with the century's most extraordinary painter-genius and illumines, by her own very considerable artistic knowledge, his views on the art and artists around...
With a certain smile, Graduate Girl Novelist Françoise Sagan, 29, reported in McCall's (which invented togetherness) that the latest thing for a two-time loser in the Paris set, like Françoise herself, is to wear both her outdated wedding rings together. That way, a man can tell she is a "dangerous person to become serious about," while if he persists in chasing a three-or four-ring femme fatale, he is really saying bonjour, tristesse...