Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President and Mme. Vincent Auriol cast their ballots in downtown Paris amid the pop of photographers' flashbulbs, then hustled off to the Auteuil horse races. Grey-suited De Gaulle, as dour as usual, voted in a schoolhouse in his home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises. Premier Henri Queuille, symbol of the Third Force, voted before TV and newsreel cameras in his constituency in central France, then flew back to Paris to watch the count...
...time in a decade. The transfer of Junior Stephens from short-to-third has given the defense a huge boost, which outweighs even Lou Boudreau's 250 hitting. And Johnny Pesky is always ready to take Boudreau's place. Only the catching is bad, but it is very bad. Les Moss, bought from St. Louis to replace Birdie Tebbetts, is just barely keeping his batting average over...
...Les Brown's Orchestra will be the name band at the Senior Spread, the Class Day Committee announced last night...
...were witnesses in a libel suit brought by French Author David Rousset against the French Communist weekly Les Lettres Françaises. Heavy, one-eyed David Rousset, 38, an ex-inmate of Hitler's Buchenwald, had proposed a year ago that an international commission investigate all the concentration camps in the world. Les Lettres retorted that Russia had only "correctional stockades," that Rousset faked his evidence. Rousset sued for damages. El Campesino and the others came to testify to the reality of Soviet slave labor...
Measured Gravity. One of the greats who got an unwelcome notice was Franz Liszt. After Liszt dropped his dazzling career as a pianist to compose his bombastic symphonic poems (Tasso, Les Preludes, Mazeppa), Hanslick wrote with measured gravity: "The musical world has suffered, in the virtuoso's abdication, a loss which the composer's succession can hardly compensate." Liszt stuck to his composing, but the verdict of time supports Critic Hanslick...