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...Premier stepped down as his own Foreign Minister and persuaded his able Minister of Finance, Edgar Faure, to move over to the Quai d'Orsay. Faure, who was Premier once himself (for 40 days in 1952) and would like to be again, is a lawyer and econo mist, a moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation to Foreign Minister is plainly part of Mendès' effort to stave off his threatening tumble from power by a gesture to the country's "European" wing...
...which means dry gulch. But last week the field was anything but that; it was a sea of mud. Rain fell throughout the game. TV Announcer Mel Allen, who seemed to have been briefed by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, spoke first of an "overcast," then of a "mist," and finally, quite frankly of rain ("How about that...
...always, he spoke with clarity and feeling. So did Judith Anderson, who was superb in the sleepwalking scene. The rest of the cast did not always do so well: the three weird sisters, along with many of the supporting players, often seemed as drowned in gibberish as in mist. For next season, Evans and Schaefer are thinking of deserting Shakespeare for Shaw: Evans has already taken TV options on The Devil's Disciple and Man and Superman...
...picture minutely. He reported afterwards: "I felt that I had touched bottom . . . and that I was gazing on the true painting of Leonardo, spoiled, to be sure, by the centuries, but no longer smeared by incompetent hands. [At] a few yards . . . the figures emerged as if from a mist, large and imposing. Space was full of their presence...
...adventures you've been making up without being utterly fluent in some European tongue. When he confounds you with a sudden French or Italian phrase and demands an accounting for the bland expression on your face, your play is this. "Why, I never had to learn any French. My mist . . . uh . . . a girl did all my interpreting." Needless to say, a discrete look around and a man-to-man tone of voice will enhance the effectiveness of this ploy. If your tormentor has been feminine, it is safe to say she'll leave you alone for the rest...