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Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire dulled by sentiment, but all the same a good movie from a great novel; with Geérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
Behind Rayburn's warning also lay a political ploy, aimed at shifting the responsibility for diluting the reciprocal trade bill from the Democratic Congress to the Republican Administration. Rayburn's friend and proteégeé, Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, suffered a humiliating defeat when the House recently voted down a dole-type unemployment-compensation bill approved by his Ways & Means Committee (TIME, May 12). Hopeful of succeeding Rayburn as Speaker one day, Mills was desperately anxious to avoid even the possibility of a similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also...
Buttonhook, line and slinker, the Nazis bought the argument, let Paris' 60-odd dressmakers carry on business almost as usual. Among them: Lelong proteégeés Balmain and Dior...
...years ago, Father Rosi joined a missionary order noted for its work among the Papuan Islanders-the Congregation du Sacré-Coeur d'lssoudun. But instead of sending him forth to convert the heathen, his superiors appointed him mathematics professor at the order's Collège de Thoissey, of which he eventually became director...
...himself as a sergeant in 1940 when he held out in a Vosges dugout five days after the rest of the army had surrendered to the Nazis. After escaping from a German prison camp, he joined De Gaulle, eventually took charge of the resistance in the Ariège department in the south of France. At Dienbienphu, in 1954, he characteristically fought until his last round was spent, then walked out of his bunker to surrender with his hands stuffed ostentatiously and contemptuously in his pockets...