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...Frenchman and German may still distrust each other profoundly, but neither lets that stand in the way of business. Last year West Germany was France's best customer, buying $490 million worth of French goods. And France bought more from Germany ($432 million worth) than from any other country except the U.S. ($460 million...
...become one of the theater's most wildly and continuously funny clowns, capable of rowdy hauteurs and of a stare that could blight fruit. To Coward's drawingroom yarn of two bored young wives who jointly, jealously, at length drunkenly await the arrival of a Frenchman they both sinned with years before, she brings nothing so conventional as a fresh approach, but rather a superbly irrelevant new dimension...
...France's postwar comeback is largely the work of a burly Frenchman with a booming laugh and a bike-racer's stamina: Board Chairman Max Hymans, 55, a native Parisian who was successively an engineer, patent attorney, politician, and resistance leader before signing on as Free
...recently. That was putting it mildly. Prince Rainier was often in the company of Gisele Pascal, a French actress. A mayor of Monte Carlo had married a former Sister of Charity who had nursed him in the hospital. The clergy were quarreling among themselves. The bishop of Monaco, a Frenchman, did not get along with his Italian priests...
This year's trip was for the purpose of teaching at Harvard under the Bacon professorship exchange program; in return, Professor Carl J. Friedrich is now at the College de France. Lecturing with a pince-nez poised in his right hand, the 80-year-old Frenchman beguiles his local students with his sharp intellect, his choice of words, and the movements of his long fingers which seem seem to point out his important ideas. Noticeably present at every lecture is the professor's wife. "Usually when I give a lecture," said Professor Siegfried, "my wife takes notes...