Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Workmen digging drains in the village of Buxiéres-les-Froncles, a hundred-odd miles from Paris, last week uncovered the bones of five men, each with his skull cracked, each wrapped in the shreds of a long-outmoded uniform. The mayor, the local schoolteacher and five policemen investigated the strange discovery, got a thorough explanation from the village's oldest inhabitant, 91-year-old Emilie Guillaumot. Her story...
...Les malgré-nous," the Alsatians called them-malgré-nous meaning "in spite of ourselves." In 1942-44 the German army had drafted 130,000 Alsatians and Lorrainers, in spite of themselves (only a few were pro-Nazi). Most of the still living came home after the war; others, in little groups, came home last week; 13,000 are still missing...
...time they got the bottles swept up in Antibes and Juan-les-Pins last week, it was magnificently evident: the marriage of Sidney Bechet, Negro patriarch of New Orleans jazz, to his new white wife had turned into the gaudiest rout on the Riviera since Rita Hayworth married Aly Khan...
Bechet ("I think I'm 60") and his bride, German-born Elizabeth Ziegler, 43, took their vows at the Antibes town hall. Then, while crowds along the way cheered and jitterbugged in the street, they rode in slow procession in an open carriage to Juan-les-Pins, two miles away, for the reception. Ten blaring jazz bands serenaded them along the way. After them came 400 wedding guests, including Music Hall Star Mistinguett and U.S. Vice Consul William Bates. Other celebrators: French army Senegalese, local fishermen, long-haired existentialists from Paris, two men carrying a twelve-foot clarinet, cagefuls...
...Les Paul's New Sound (Les Paul with Mary Ford; Capitol, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). Paul's new sound is one mean guitar parlayed by electronics into a whole studioful of mean guitars. Also thanks to electronics, Songstress Ford's new sound resembles old-fashioned yelling down the rainbarrel...