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...second city of France, resembles in many ways the San Francisco of Barbary Coast days and the Chicago of Al Capone's era. Animosity between Gaullists and Communists reaches a shriller pitch in Marseille than anywhere else in France. In Marseille last week the new R.P.F. (Gaullist) mayor, Michel Carlini, 58, who had been mauled by a Red mob, lay on a couch, his head wrapped in bandages, and said...
...Russian-made cousin: Mikki Maus. Some names of the original Mickey, elsewhere: Miki Kuchi (Japan), Miguel Ratoncito (Spain), Michel Souris (France), Musse Pigg (Sweden), Camondongo Mickey (Brazil), El Raton Mickey (Argentina), Mikel Mus (Greece...
...Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze statuette of St. Michel, went to René Clair's French Le Silence Est d'Or (Man About Town), starring Maurice Chevalier. A special award went to Roberto (Open City) Rossellini's Italian Paisa (Country Town). French Gerard Philipe was honored as the year's best actor for his work...
...readers know French Novelist Roger Vercel for his Tides of Mont St.-Michel, a fictional Cook's Tour of the famed medieval island abbey off Brittany. Less ambitious but just as colorful is the latest Vercel novel published in the U.S.-the story of a rich, gone-to-seed Breton family who live at Plangomeur, a mansion not far from Mont St.-Michel...
Citizens of all sorts and sizes have read The Education of Henry Adams, his Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, and the several collections of Adams' witty, cranky, sardonic letters (TIME, Jan. 20). But the History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison has been left almost wholly to the professionals-for the simple and ample reason that it is nine volumes long...