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...papers with an apology when he noticed that Branquez's birth date, Aug. 2, 1909, made him out to be much older than he looked. At the station house, Branquez's fingerprints were taken. Within two hours the French criminal police identified them as belonging to one Germain Lantier, a Frenchman who had deserted to the Germans in World War II, had risen to be a lieutenant in the Gestapo. Arrested at war's end, Lantier had escaped from a military hospital, been condemned to death in absentia as a traitor...
Paris Song Festival -Maurice Chevalier introduces birthday song. Student Week (recreation of the medieval St. Germain Fair). Festival Of the Boats of Yesterday and Today with night pageants on the Seine. Midnight Bicycle Race through the Streets of Paris. Féte Of Place Vendome: a week of celebration in this famous square. Grand Concert in the Louvre courtyard with 2 great symphony orchestras and the coronation music of Louis XIV on original trumpets. Citywide Flower Contest with all the balconies of Paris florally decorated. Rabelais Fair in all its ancient splendour in the markets of Paris. Montparnasse Week. Studios...
...there were plenty of smaller prizes. A group of writers who like to dine in the Brasserie Lipp on the Boulevard St. Germain met, drank three Martinis, and awarded the international prize of the French Book Club to Robert Penn Warren for the French translation of All the King's Men. The same group of men then got up, walked across the street to the Café des Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert...
...five poems in the Advocate are generally superior to the prose contributions. Donald Hall's "Epithalamion" is a haunting treatment of an old theme--the marriage of opposites. "Saint-Germain-des-Pres," by Lyon Phelps, is entirely an evocation of atmosphere, and it succeeds admirably within this limited intention. Lee Austin's "Truro; 1854" and Will Morgan's "The Golden Legend" are both musical and cryptically romantic, "Cryptic" would be too mild, however, to describe Douglas Freelander's "Almyra." As far as this reader is concerned, it is 16 lines of downright obscurantism...
When the curtain went up in the same Théátre des Champs-Elysées, remnants of the Parisian elite, teen-aged American fans, and unwashed philosophers from St.-Germain-des-Prés saw a dark-eyed, intense little dancer in a clinging, stone-colored gown standing starkly alone. It was barefoot Modernist Martha Graham, on her first excursion abroad with her own company...