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...weeks ago the 11,000 citizens of the sober little town of Saint-Junien in central France got along all right with their Communist mayor. Then M. le Maire Martial Pascaud decided to make a gesture of obeisance to his masters in the Kremlin. Tottering old Communist Leader Marcel Cachin paid a visit to Saint-Junien. To mark the occasion, Mayor Pascaud marched a party of 100 local Communists down Saint-Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street was thoroughly renamed...
Last week, for the first time in 71 years, a French-bred horse won England's classic St. Leger. The winner, by a length, was Marcel Boussac's tall, long-striding chestnut colt, Scratch II. For the British, who have an aversion to invasions, the result was doubly dour since another French horse finished second. For dapper Owner Boussac ("I am delighted, delighted") and Jockey Rae Johnstone, it was the third time this year they had taken the British into camp; they had won the Derby with Galcador and the Oaks with Asmena...
Questions & Answers. Three years ago, on one of his rare vacations, hard-working Marcel Boussac visited the U.S. In Kentucky's Blue Grass country, he saw Calumet Farm's famed Whirlaway, the 1941 triple crown winner. Said Boussac: "C'est pour moi" This summer, he completed a deal to lease Whirlaway for a three-year stud assignment in France...
...Door in the Walls. Those who were going home would take with them unforgettable memories of Prades and the little man who, to honor Bach, had broken his vow not to play in public again until Franco's government had been ousted from his native Spain. Said Oboist Marcel Tabuteau: "It is not possible to believe what Casals does with a bow. There has never been anyone like him." For voluble young Violinist Isaac Stern, Casals had "opened a door in the walls-our conventional conceptions of music-and showed us how we can go beyond without losing respect...
...Barkeep of Blémont, by Marcel Aymée. What happens to wine-loving, live-and-let-live Bartender Leopold when he is caught in the postLiberation politics of his French town (TIME...