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...home of its own, for seven years. This week an international design panel produced plans for the permanent home UNESCO hopes to build in Paris. The main feature of the plan, as conceived by France's Bernard Zehrfuss, Italy's Pier Nervi and the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer: a smaller edition of big sister's Manhattan "sandwich on end" (TIME, Sept. 22), with a cluster of conference halls near...
...Kramer; Columbia) is the time of growing up for twelve-year-old Bibi Bonnard (Bobby Driscoll) in the Ottawa of the '20s. The picturesque Bonnard family, headed by a kind, understanding papa (Charles Boyer) and strait-laced maman (Marsha Hunt), includes lovable, lecherous old grand-père (Marcel Dalio), who chases after widows, Uncle Louis (Kurt Kasznar), who drinks vast quantities of white wine from a water cooler, and Uncle Desmonde (Louis Jourdan), a traveling salesman who collects ladies' garters...
...cream sodas in the U.S. The Swiss, trusting in their mountains, their tough little army, and their luck, have not been in a war for 137 years, have determinedly stayed out of Europe's attempt to organize a joint defense. Yet a bold, bad professor, one Marcel Beck of the University of Zurich, dares question the wisdom of Swiss isolationism. The National Day Committee, a well-meaning group which organizes patriotic rallies, invited Professor Beck to speak on the 661st anniversary celebration of Swiss independence. His speech was a shocker...
Spelunkers are men who like to explore holes in the ground. They say in the Pyrenees, which are as full of holes as Gruyère cheese, that once you become a spelunker (short for speleologist) the passion never leaves you. Such a man was 33-year-old Marcel Loubens. Since boyhood he had been crawling in & out of caves in his native Ariège in southern France. Then he ran an office-equipment firm in Paris, but the passion was still with him. Last year he was a member of an expedition which...
...Second Face, by Marcel Ayme. One of the best of Gallic ironists tells what happens when a plodding Frenchman gets a handsome new face (TIME, April...