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Sculpture in a Dairy. A year after his friend Picasso went to Paris, Manolo used his last peseta for train fare, arrived at Paris' Gare d'Austerlitz knowing one word in French: "Montmartre." Once there, Manolo rapidly established himself with his peasant shrewdness and high-spirited escapades as the Sancho Panza of Montmartre, and was soon fending for himself. Reports Picasso's mistress of that day, Fernande Olivier: "Happily, he fell in love with the daughter of a dairyman who hired him each day to sculpture animals and flowers in mounds of butter...
After World War I a whole generation of architects and painters, in search of a new style, flocked to the standard of Mondrian's Neo-Plasticism. British Painter Ben Nicholson made a pilgrimage to Mondrian's quiet, immaculate Paris studio overlooking the Gare Montparnasse railroad tracks, likened it to "one of those hermit's caves where lions used to go to have thorns taken out of their paws." U.S. Sculptor Alexander Calder saw the bright rectangles on Mondrian's walls, went home, set the cubes in motion by creating his first mobile. Now, 13 years after...
...Discounter Gattegno,who grossed about $1,500,000 last year, plans to open a new American-style supermarket this spring with three floors of food, appliances and clothing, smack in the heart of the poor people's Paris near Gare St.-Lazare. Its name: Chez Monsieur 20%. Says he: "I will make new enemies among French retailers. But what interests me are the customers. They are my friends...
...closed and many local industries, including the Citroen plant, crippled for lack of workers. Police strengthened their cordon around the Chamber of Deputies, while the garde mobile (riot police) set up strongpoints all over Paris. By 1 p.m. thousands of Algerians had gathered at the Moslem mosque near the Gare d'Austerlitz. At 3 p.m. they formed themselves into a straggling parade led by a girl dressed in white. Chanting Algerian hymns and thrusting their right hands (forefinger extended) into the air in the Algerian nationalist salute, they marched along the quais toward the Place de la Concorde...
...been able to dislodge Les Halles, though it is two miles from the main railroad stations and set in a tortuous network of ancient streets barely passable by trucks. In the resulting jam, it takes a truck up to three hours to make the two miles from the Gare de Bercy, and the trucking charges for those two miles from station to market are higher than the shipping charge from the farthest corner of France to the railroad station...