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When Jean Abel Gros (pronounced grow) first saw the famed pre-Christmas parade of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. 13 years ago, he got an idea. A showman with a small boy's taste for shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades...
Last week he was doing just that. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Columbus, Ohio, Wheeling, W. Va. and eleven other cities and towns, hundreds of thousands of children turned out to watch department-store parades featuring Jean Gros's balloons. He had a dragon 100 ft. long, a 450-ft. train with rubber figures of people and animals poking their heads out of the windows, Santa Claus, and a string of jeeps...
Before the short (Nov. 1 to Dec. 15) season ends, Gros's three units will have staged 102 parades to a total audience of around 15 million. Said Gros joyfully: "Just like marionettes, only a hell of a lot bigger...
...stifling France since the war; but at the same time, he was forced to use repressive measures by current economic emergencies, and by his Socialist colleagues, who were committed to a controlled economy. His dilemma was well illustrated by the affair of what the French used to call their gros fafiots (five grand...
...with the New York Rangers, 0-0. During a melee around the Ranger cage, in slid the puck. But the goal was disallowed; the referee had blown his siffleur (whistle). "Sacré maudit!" (damn it all) groaned the fans, holding their heads in agony. Cried one to the referee: "Gros jambon, tu pues!" (you big ham, you stink...