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Three years ago Prime Minister King Hired Jacques Greber, Parisian cityplanner, to draw up blueprints for a capital that Canadians could be proud of. Last week, before a Senate Committee, the white-mustached, 65-year-old Frenchman gave a few hints of what Ottawa could look like...
...recent appearance of the Kinsey Report has suddenly brought most of these doubtful factors into a maturity of public interest. . ." Sample spicy headings in Lockridge's work: "What a Man Expects of a Mistress," "Good Women Not as Skillful as Prostitutes," "The Perfect Wedding Night," "A Frenchman's Experience...
...follow, they would have a hard time improving on the 700-year-old game of "court tennis." In fact, there have been some noble tries. There have been court tennis players who used champagne bottles for bats, or played the game while riding ponies. And an 18th Century Frenchman went so far as to serve while crouched in a barrel, returning to the barrel between strokes. None of these refinements lasted: the game was baffling enough...
However, since history, in the spring of '48, was not putting its challenge to the West with the somewhat artificial simplicity of a questionnaire, some theoretically thorny questions might not have to be answered for a while. Or time might make them easier to answer. Said a Frenchman, in angry pessimism: "As things are now, a Russian army could be in Paris within eight days. . . . What really counts, besides the Marshall Plan, are the Italian elections...
...masters as pontoons for his own takeoff; it would have been more correct to call the old masters one pontoon and non-European art the other. Like Delacroix, he had visited North Africa and returned with a lasting predilection for harem props and paraphernalia. Unlike the earlier Frenchman, he found an ancient way of seeing as well...