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...With no Gallic kiss, but a handshake, sensitive General Henri Giraud (five stars) greeted sensitive General Charles de Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Union in Algiers | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Today, though Manhattan's swankest pub-crawlers flock to hear her, Mme. Alphand is already tired of professional life. Says she, with a Gallic shrug: "If I am not to sing, then I must sew, I must make hats or something." But she admits that she is not doing badly in the new world, says: "Heaven was very charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Caf | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Lloyd mastered the trick. The Robe (Christ's cloak) is a story of the past in modern dress. It describes the conversion to Christianity and martyr's death of Tribune Marcellus Gallic (the Roman who carried out Pilate's order to crucify Jesus) and the life of Marcellus' faithful Greek slave and bodyguard Demetrius. The setting is chiefly Rome, Palestine, Capri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Hat, New Coat | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

Shape of the world's second-best-known mustache, said Charles Spencer Chaplin, will be changed for the first time in more than 20 years of picturemaking. The new model will be a delicate Gallic affair to fit a cinesatire on Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard. Wendell Willkie, back home in Rushville (see p. 20), eagerly looked forward to his first haircut since Cairo, 6,500 miles, six weeks back. From Vichy came an eye-catching picture of dapper Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affaires, his smart new wife, Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, her hat -a full-fashioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: How It Is | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Scattered throughout the volume are short vignettes of men and institutions which are well worth reading even without regard for the general context. Professor Guerard has the advantages of a Gallic mind thoroughly at home in the English idiom, and his sparking deftness of phrase makes him delightful reading. However much one may disagree with his conclusions, the author has proved himself competent to handle his subject matter, and has done it in a most entertaining manner...

Author: By T. S. B., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 5/20/1942 | See Source »

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