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...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...
Honegger: A Christmas Cantata (Michel Roux; Lamoureux Orchestra, choirs and organ conducted by Paul Sacher; Epic). A pacing, brooding opening chorus wells up to a shrieking appeal to the Saviour. After that, the music carries on with more competence than excitement, but it does weave in several Christmas carols (sung in their original languages by children) to make a big, festive impression. A typical work by the first member of France's famed...
...were both chilly and superior, they had a great deal to be superior about. Henry's great-grandfather John and his grandfather John Quincy were U.S. Presidents. His father Charles Francis was Minister to the Court of St. James's (1861-68). Though he wrote two masterpieces (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams), Henry Adams mocked himself as a lifelong failure, perhaps because he clung to the Confucian standard that the truly superior man demands more of himself than of others...
...disciple of Adams rather than Gibbon, Medievalist Allan Temko, 31, has put his love and knowledge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame into an astute and eloquent book that merits shelfroom with Adams' famed Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. But while Adams sought out only the major thread of medieval unity, Author Temko weaves a tapestry of multiplicity-within-unity. Along with the rising cathedral walls, he traces the rise of the Capetian monarchs to rule Paris, the rise of Paris to rule France, the rise of French Gothic to rule an age. "The Church clothes her stones...