Word: iles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were in safely, worked into their docks with an intense concentration that the watching thousands at dockside and in office buildings could feel. The tense delicacy of the maneuvers made a French sea dog the waterside hero of the week. When Captain Franck Garrigue the beaming master of the Ile de France, brought his 44,356-ton liner abreast of the French Line pier, he did not hesitate. Quick as an eel, he wheeled the Ile around and slid her into the slip in just 19 minutes. Even the pickets cheered. The glory and honor of France were unblemished...
...strictly an assignment for an assistant curator. Workmen tearing down a tile factory in a Paris suburb had come upon some interesting old masonry embedded in the factory wall. Georges Poisson, assistant curator of the Ile de France Museum at Sceaux, traveled over to Choisy-le-Roi for a look. What he saw made his eyes pop. There, preserved under later coatings of the brick & mortar, stood the ornate facade of Choisy-le-Roi's "Petit Château"-the hideaway King Louis XV built for his mistress, Madame de Pompadour...
...Challenger. The majority of these travelers are still going by ship, although the airlines, helped by their new tourist rates, will carry almost as many. Like the planes, tourist space on the stately Queens, the elegant Ile de France, the Independence, Constitution, and all the other liners, is sold out till September. By midsummer, France will add her 23-knot, 20,300-ton Flandre to the transatlantic fleet, and Holland will put her 15,000-ton, 875-passenger Maasdam into service. But the prize of the new ships is the United States Lines' new superliner United States, the biggest...
...York's smoke-control bureau irascibly haled authorities of the French Line into municipal court on a complaint that the Ile de France was violating the city anti-smoke ordinance. "The Ile de France" said Bureau Director William G. Christy, "smokes every time it comes here...
Died. Henri Philippe Omer Benoit Joseph Pétain, 95, Marshal of France, hero of Verdun in World War I, symbol of French defeatism and defeat in World War II; in Port Joinville, Ile d'Yeu, where he had been since June 29, when his life prison sentence for treason, already commuted from death, was commuted again to confinement in a hospital. To the end, Pétain insisted that, as Premier in 1940, he capitulated to the Nazis and then collaborated with them to "spare" France. "You may judge me according to your conscience," he told the court...