Word: les
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...transformation as speedy and effective as Puerto Rico's has worthwhile les sons for all Latin America, and for all underdeveloped countries with industrial ambitions. The lesson is not being lost; the story of Puerto Rico is better known among development-minded people abroad than it is among Americans. For this week's festivities, 323 foreign students and technicians are on hand, the latest of more than 3,000 who have come in the last five years from such distant places as the Fiji Islands, Pakistan, Iceland, Israel, Ethiopia and Nepal...
They number 39 in all, including Renoir's famed, gentle Les Parapluies, and the small (17½ in. by 29 in.), amiable boating scene Jour d'Eté (Summer Day) by Berthe Morisot. A will drawn in 1913 by Sir Hugh, then director of Ireland's National Gallery, left the pictures to England. But before he went to his death aboard the torpedoed Lusitania off Cork in 1915, Sir Hugh added a codicil to his will giving the pictures to Ireland, provided that it built a suitable gallery for them within five years. The codicil...
Imitation of Christ. Pere Foucauld had dreamed of founding a religious order, but he died alone, without baptizing more than three or four converts in his entire life. In 1933 five students in the seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux decided to found an order based on his austere rule of "extreme poverty in everything." In Algeria, on the edge of the Sahara at El-Abiodh-Sidi-Cheikh, the first novitiate of the Petits Freres de Jesus was opened. Six years later an order of women, the Petites Soeurs de Jesus, was founded...
...Capitol records-Les Baxter's Poor People of Paris and Nelson Riddle's Lisbon Antigua are the No. 1 and No. 2 jukebox favorites in the U.S. Its Sixteen Tons, by Tennessee Ernie, is the fastest selling record in history (1,000,000 in three weeks). Among Billboard's top ten albums, Capitol last week led all other companies with four. In 14 years Capitol has moved from nowhere to fourth place in the industry, just behind the patriarchs: RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca...
Died. Frank Jay Gould, 78, youngest son of the late buccaneering railroad tycoon, Jay (Black Friday) Gould, who boosted the $10 million inherited from his father to a reported $100 million; at his villa, Soleil d'Or; in Juan-les-Pins, France. Francophile Gould moved to France in 1913 for a "temporary residence" that lasted for 43 years, made a fortune in race horses and real estate, turned the quiet backwater of Juan-les-Pins into a famed international...