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...altiés today specializes in lively, handsomely illustrated features on art and travel, but also covers a wide range of subjects with a mixture of Gallic verve and American nerve, e.g., it recently sent a staffer on his first trip to Africa to bring back a picture story on "How to Hunt Big Game," commissioned a French explorer to write his story of an Amazon trip, "I Starved with the World's Most Primitive Tribe." The magazine's lavish color pages, planned by Art Editor Albert Gilou, sometimes achieve the lustrous clarity of a Flemish painting...
...concert stage last week became the beachhead for a two-pronged invasion, junior-size: Germany's Obernkirchen Children's Choir attacked in Manhattan, while the Little Singers of Paris took over Washington. Displaying powerful charm and undeniably high musicianship, the Gallic and Germanic youngsters (both groups will tour in the U.S. for about ten weeks) easily overpowered their pleased U.S. victims...
...Bernard is a bearded journalist, masquerading as ''Tante Nicole," an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist, who is a sort of tenderhearted Gallic Mary Haworth...
...deeply comprehensive-and sympathetic-of all the ills that plague France at the present time as reflected by French youth and interpreted through American eyes. Even after years of close and happy association with my French friends, I still never fail to be appalled by the very typically Gallic shrug of the shoulders accompanied by the timeworn and threadbare excuses which reach back to the War of 1870 and the Prussian occupation of Paris...
...historians stated clearly that at that time (October), the river was in flood. The Isére does not flood in October, but another tributary, the Durance, does. Another clue in favor of the Durance is that Hannibal was reported to have passed three Gallic tribes. Old records show that their territories became modern dioceses on the Durance...