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Tall, nimble Lecturer Marcel Labourdette began...
...trouble was in southern Indo-China. At Hanoi, noting that the French Tricolor was missing from the decorations, General Marcel Alessandri huffily refused to attend the Japanese surrender to Chinese General Lu Han. And at week's end a protest went from Paris to Chungking: Chinese troops had "advanced" into Laos in the French zone
...Vienna correspondent, Gedye was a lone wolf. He steered clear of the Cafe Louvre, where such mutually admiring members of the Anglo-American press club as Marcel Fodor. John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson talked away the days over Kaffee mit Schlagobers, and pooled their findings. He drifted around the country, wrote excellent travel and history books on Austria...
...Marcel Proust, The Guermantes...
...Whitney Museum, which was host last week to "European Artists in America," a show limited to work by 39 Continental refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn with broken propeller parts, spilt putty, the detached, heraldic bowsprits...