Word: hiver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice in Time. Paris' famed Cirque d'Hiver was persuaded to lend its ring and five lions-Pasha, Prince, Romeo, Pigalle and Hamed-for the legal demonstration. "Never turn your back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...Davis movement was receiving letters at the rate of 400 a day. From Savoy, in the southeast, a hysterical woman wrote: "I think you must be Christ returned." A Courbevoie worker wrote: "This is our last hope." Recently Garry Davis filled the Salle Pleyel and the Velodrome d'Hiver, two big auditoriums in Paris, with cheering thousands-crowds such as only Charles de Gaulle, and possibly Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, could attract. His committee of support includes Albert Einstein, who cabled that "only the unbendable will of the people can free the forces which are necessary for such...
...Turkey's table. Worst of all, brash young Garry Davis, who calls himself a citizen of the world (TIME, Sept. 20, 27), and who has needled the Assembly since September, pulled a crowd of 20,000 to hear him speak in the cold Velodrome d'Hiver, while the Palais de Chaillot's comfortable seats were far from filled...
...Faubourg St. Antoine, the swank Champs Elysées barber. It was not a strike; it was a protest. Many of the indignant proprietors had gone to a mass meeting of the classes moyennes, the middle classes, at the vast and dingy Vélodrome d'Hiver. The protest was not local; throughout the nation 85% of small business establishments were closed...
Revolt, Almost. At the Vélodrome d'Hiver, 30,000 people wedged in and more tried to. Dapper doctors and smart young women in furs sat next to seedy old men in skullcaps. A young blonde who had a perfume shop near the Trocadero told a reporter that her hat had cost 28,000 francs ($235) at Lanvin's. She sat, vibrating with anger, until a speaker mentioned Schuman's Finance Minister René Mayer, whereupon she stood up, brandished her fist, and shrieked: "That man is an idiot! Let's have some action...