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...younger daughter of Britain's King George VI, did the galleries, appeared circumspectly at a nightclub, danced until 2:30 a.m. at an embassy ball, and slipped through a garden gate to escape a carload of photographers determined to pursue her on a drive into the country. Frenchmen said of her: "Qu'elle est belle!" Reporters noted with approval that in nine public appearances she had worn nine different costumes. At the airport last week, when it was all over, Margaret murmured politely to her hosts: "I've had such a wonderful time...
Conchita Qintron, 26, girl bullfighter, drew ooohs and aaahs from 20,000 Frenchmen for her form-fitting black getup, but only perfunctory applause for her Paris debut in the ring. Since French law forbids the killing of bulls, cool-eyed Conchita went through her routines with wooden swords, made one "kill" by laying a handful of orchids daintily between her victim's horns...
...ambassador's diary, which is stolen from a Paris embassy and concealed aboard the Paris-Trieste-Zagreb express. As the train rushes on through the night, the plot drags tediously from one compartment to another, deliberately involving a whole gallery of British tintypes, a sprinkling of Frenchmen and a lone American G.I. In the resultant overcrowding, both action and suspense are very nearly suffocated. Following in a long line of brilliant British thrillers-on-wheels (e.g., Night Train, The Lady Vanishes), Sleeping Car rides at the end of a slow freight...
...Written with Sartre's characteristic energy and the faint overtones of sounder sense that he has acquired since World War II and the French resistance, it places his own writing in the same class with the work of André Malraux and Antoine de St. Exupéry-Frenchmen of action, compelled to do their work in a time of disintegrating values when any act had to be its own justification. Thus he seems to write an apologia for such books as Nausea as having been conditioned by a certain time and place...
More serious Frenchmen also had their show last week. They flocked to view and sample the fat flitches of bacon, succulent sausages and juicy sides of pork on display at Paris' traditional Ham Fair, reopened for the first time since the war. One epicure, tasting an exhibit (below), demonstrated that there were at least some people left in the world who appreciated the importance of the finer things in life-the proper blending of spices and garlic in a sausage, for example...