Word: michel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chrysler Jr. and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art both climbed aboard, bought late-Monet paintings (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). The Monet boom resounded even louder with a show of his late works last summer by Paris Art Dealer Katia Granoff, who bought from Monet's son, Michel, the paintings that for decades had been stored at Monet's Giverny studio (where several collected shrapnel holes during World War II). The fresh supply set off a scramble that one U.S. buyer called "a regular gold rush; the prices seemed to go up 1,000,000 francs...
...follows: "President of the Harvard University, Cambridge-Boston. Sir, I address to you with a pray: can you let send me a Manual of English and American Literature and Grammar and a Manual of English and American History? It's impossible here to get these books. Yours Faithfully, mgr. Michel Winogrodzki, schoolmaster, Silesia, Poland...
...GLORY OF ROMANESQUE ART (351 pp.; Vanguard; $15). In the minds of many visitors to France, what lingers longest is the richness of its Romanesque architecture, the combination of religiosity and dedicated workmanship that lives in Chartres, at Mont St.-Michel, in Vezelay. These 271 photographs are rich evidence of the legacy left by the great architects and sculptors of 11th and 12th century France, the marriage of mass and grace, of glory to God and man's determination to create for posterity...
...Died. Michel Detroyat, 50, flamboyant French stunt pilot who in 1932 set a record for flying upside down (26 min. 2.4 sec.), later (1936) became the first foreigner to win the UfS.'s Thompson Trophy race (at a record 264.261 m.p.h.); of a cerebral embolism; in Paris...
...roll number named Dis-Moi Qu'Tu M'Aimes Rock (Tell Me That You Love Me Rock). Ostensibly written by a U.S. rock 'n' roller named Mig Bike, the song is actually the latest and loudest product of a reedy, bespectacled 24-year-old named Michel Legrand. Although the people who buy his records have only recently become aware that he exists, Composer-Conductor Legrand has in the last three years become one of the most successful popular musicians in France and a top seller on both the U.S. and French record markets...