Word: merli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bikini swimming suit, which made a coy appearance on some beaches last summer, will make a big splash along U.S. shores next summer. At least, the swimsuit makers think so. At their showing of suits for winter resorts and next sum mer, makers ranging from big Catalina, and Cole of California, to Manhattan's petite Margaret Pennington, were plainly convinced that the Bikini, and two-piece suits in general, will be the brief thing to wear. Reasons: the rise in private pools, the step-up in travel to Europe, which has broadened the U.S. woman's taste while...
...politics were French rather than Caribbean. Over breakfasts of cafe creme avec croissants, citizens of Pointe-a-Pitre, commercial center of Guadeloupe, discussed the annual four-day bicycle race partly sponsored by the French Cycling Federation. Since 1946 the islands have been departments of France d'outre-mer (overseas) rather than colonies, and their citizens have wholeheartedly accepted the notion that the 4,250 miles of ocean separating them from the mainland are nothing more than an unfortunate geographical mistake...
...seems strange that one's image of Aristide Maillol is that of an elderly man, of the master of Banyuls-sur-Mer as the bearded patriarch living his solitary existence. The idea of Maillol as a youth is one which never comes to mind, though his work richly exudes the exuberance and fecundity of whatever is truly young...
...next evening, Charles Munch will conduct the BSO in a performance of Stravinsky's "Agon;" Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, and "La Mer," by Debussy...
...MER (Debussy): Herbert von Karajan conducting Philharmonia Orchestra...