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...Despite the distractions, smash musical after smash musical kept materializing on the quires of composition paper he kept in his luggage. By 1937, he had done 15 of them, including Paris, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Red, Hot and Blue, and Anything Goes, the show which contained a lyric whose rhymes and similes transfigured the art and cast the moon-June school into lasting shade...
...terms, De Gaulle spoke of all that France could do for Venezuela-"by opening the doors of her universities, by sending her technicians, by encouraging investments in a country like this." Then he came to the hard part, a scarcely veiled reference to U.S. "hegemony" in Latin America. "We Frenchmen," he told a group of businessmen and farm leaders, "believe that from the points of view of economy, politics, influence and power, Latin America is an essential factor in a world which must regain an equilibrium. You are masters in your own house, and we wish that you remain...
...Frantic Frenchmen. The Met's greatest stroke was its 1961 auction purchase of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; armed with backing from Redmond's board, Rorimer outbid the well-heeled Cleveland Museum with the highest known price ever paid for an art object, $2,300,000. But that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly...
...only have been dredged by a greatly gifted hand. Yet Cole Porter's Tale of the Oyster has never been published. Nor, until now, has it ever been recorded. It is only remembered by those Broadway theatergoers who, in 1929, happened to see Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen...
...Frenchmen, though they are never likely to lose their skepticism, believed De Gaulle last week when he said: "The past must certainly never be repeated. Whatever the conditions under which our future will be unveiled, in a world still filled with perils let us be sure from this moment on that we have the elementary guarantees of a firm government, a modern defense and a united nation." For the length of his rule at least, the country has come close to achieving these guarantees and perhaps to satisfying De Gaulle's own axiom: "France cannot be France without greatness...