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...citizens had plenty of other problems-no less annoying because they were smaller than those of Greeks, Frenchmen, Englishmen and Chinese-and they were busy wrestling with those closest to their pocketbooks...
...With it he tramped from shoe store to shoe store without success. Some salesmen thought him a bit balmy. Eventually he found the right fit. The salesman wanted to know what kind of man ordered shoes that way. Buckner told him and the salesman muttered: "Didn't know Frenchmen had such wide feet...
That Trotsky Again. Millions of Frenchmen scented violence in the bitter wind. Socialist Premier Ramadier spent hours in his office neither reading nor writing?just tugging at his beard and staring out of the window. His biggest scare came when the rightist Parti Republicain de la Liberte scheduled a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram. Communists promptly called a meeting at the same place. Ramadier mobilized 25,000 police and soldiers, forced both parties to call off their demonstrations...
...weeks with the New York Philharmonic, Munch scheduled nine pieces by six Frenchmen. In his first Manhattan appearance last week, critics panned his Ravel and Debussy (they thought he overdid them), but cheered the first U.S. performance of French Dissonantist Arthur Honegger's Third (Liturgique) Symphony. It clanked through a violent first movement, settled into a lyric, prayer-like second movement and after an explosive climax in the third concluded with a wispy, ethereal melody. Said Conductor Munch: "It is horizontal music, rather stern and unsentimental, and as such, an expression of our times...
After a two-month tour of the U.S., Thibaud will return to Paris and his U.S. protégé, 23-year-old Arnold Eidus of The Bronx. Eidus won the Thibaud International Competition for violinists last month. Says Thibaud proudly: "There were in this competition five Frenchmen, six Hungarians, three Hollanders-and one American. The American win. Such chic, such champagne in the tone. And technique! He never miss a note. It made me nervous. . . . You Americans, you don't know what talents you have...