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...category of clothing and personal affects lies the bulk of Continentalist expression. To penetrate from the outside inwards, the raincoat is a universal fact. Anybody knows every Frenchman has a trenchcoat and that (Britain may be thrown in with the Continent in this case) every Englishmean has got his McIntosh...
...home. He traveled steerage to New York, then "gambled his way across the plains." When his luck and money gave out, he continued on foot "along the Denver and Rio Grande,'' on to San Francisco. Mother Hogan was far from pleased to see the "tattered and penniless Frenchman." Nor could Belloc overcome Elodie's resistance (she wanted to be a nun) until five years of relentless courtship-by mail -persuaded her at last into happy marriage. Eighteen years later, when he was 43, his wife died. For the rest of his life he wore black broadcloth...
...along. Max Beerbohm said, "like a Roman river full of baskets and dead cats"; fixed, it set in hard grooves. "I suppose," said Beerbohm, on hearing that Belloc had witnessed cricket, "he would have said that the only good wicket-keeper in the history of the game was a Frenchman and a Roman Catholic...
Leader of the calligraphists (a style that includes U.S. Painter Mark Tobey's famed "white writing" and the late Jackson Pollock's lassolike drip whirls) is German-born, French-naturalized Hans Hartung. Now considered a Frenchman by the French, who last November bought out his first one-man show in nine years at prices ranging from $4,000 to $6,000, and a German by the Germans, who are honoring his works with a ten-month-long museum tour, Hartung, at 52, is being hailed by critics as "one of the prophets of modern art" (in Paris...
Tennis Balls & Stewpots. In the past year France's high cost of living has gone up an estimated 8.5%. Every Frenchman feels the pinch of inflation, but the index does not show it because of Finance Minister Paul Ramadier's artful policy of "dipping the thermometer in cold water." The index is based on the Paris price of 213 commodities which include tennis balls, long underwear and iron stewpots, but do not include gasoline or green vegetables (up 33% in the past year). Seventeen times in the past ten months, as the index trembled toward 149.1, white-goateed...