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...problem which his Frenchness told him was closest to the center of France's illness. André Siegfried once remarked of the petit bourgeois that "his heart is on the left, but his pocketbook is on the right." Pinay built his policy as Premier around one object-the Frenchman's pocketbook...
...skidded off the road and cracked up his Ferrari; the surprise first-day leader turned out to be the little (1½-liter) French Gordini, driven by an ex-motorcycle racer named Jean Behra, who set a blistering average of 89 m.p.h. Only 5 min. 37 sec. behind the Frenchman was Italy's Bracco, with Germany's Karl Kling, greying veteran of prewar races, right at their heels...
With these words from the Gospels as his text, a Dominican priest has reworked one of the great Christian parables. Being a Frenchman and something of a man of action too (he fought in the Resistance-TIME, Aug. 11), Father Raymond L. Bruckberger tells his tale with a Gallic verve that makes his theme contemporary as well as timeless. The parable of the Golden Goat...
...French officer in Hanoi saw a moon-faced little Indo-Chinese looking at a book the Frenchman had left on his desk. "May I borrow the book?" the little man asked politely. "As soon as I have finished reading it myself," the Frenchman replied. The book: War in the Rear of the Enemy...
...have pity on them." In Washington the Immigration Department indicated that should Singer Baker care to re-enter the U.S., she would have to prove her right and worth. Said Josephine Baker, who gave up her U.S. citizenship in 1937 when she married her second husband, a Frenchman (as is her third) : "To be barred from entering the United States is an honor...