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André Siegfried, who in 1927 wrote an elegantly incisive book about the U.S. entitled America Comes of Age, has revised his famous but outmoded theme to match midcentury headlines. With his Gallic zest for the provocative generalization unfettered by footnotes, the sprightly old (80) professor now says that Europe's giant "daughter" is moving away from parental traditions so fast that the old folks may soon have trouble recognizing their offspring as their...
...machine-gunner tensely wetting his lips as he waits for his comrades to advance; the primitive clutter of a front-line trench. It flashes with moments of strange, sunlit beauty that almost belie the shocking truth of man diligently preoccupied with killing man. There are also lighter moments-with Gallic, wine-happy R & Rs (Rest and Recuperators) in Japan. But Director Dupont never strays far from the terrible business that carried him, the French battalion and the tens of thousands of other U.N. soldiers into combat in Korea...
...French Premiers. In its 51 years the orchestra has had 13 "permanent" conductors, and few of them managed to last more than a season or two. Seattle's worst moment came in 1951, when French Conductor Manuel Rosenthal was forbidden re-entry to the U.S. for a Gallic breach of morals (the official reason was perjury concerning his marital status when he returned; the lady who traveled with him was not his wife). After the symphony's officials stopped blushing, they decided not to hire anyone for a while but to study a relay of guest conductors...
...Poor Gaston went to his favorite café and, with the help of his favorite muscatel, began morosely to imagine every detail of his historic disgrace. From there on. Novelist Ferret and Hero Gaston have the time of their lives, swashbuckling through the most amusing piece of Gallic whimsy to cross the Atlantic in a long while. Coming aboard the imaginary La Douce as an officer, Gaston is welcomed by his kinsman, and performs such deeds of valor in combat with the Spaniards as would shame a Walter Mitty. Far from being a coward, Captain...
Aboard the French liner Ile de France at a Manhattan pier, France's retiring Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, 66, whose charm and Gallic wit have entranced Washington for the past nine years, and Mme. Bonnet, a fixture on lists of the world's best-dressed women, were seen off for home amidst the popping of champagne corks. Just before sailing time, Diplomat Bonnet got a sisterly farewell kiss from a longtime family friend, glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich. Said he feelingly to his well-wishers: "I thank you for the happiest years in our lives...