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...dinner for Louis XIV, according to Mme. de Sévigné, the grand chef de cuisine at the Château Chantilly killed himself rather than face the Sun King without enough fish for his pièce de résistance. Fortunately, no such tragedy marred last week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning...
Before destiny sideswipes him, the lean, fiftyish Pippin is content to live on his unearned income and enjoy a nightly orgy of stargazing from the roof of his Parisian town house. More concierge than wife, Mme. Héristal rations out new telescopes with a parsimonious hand. Daughter Clotilde, 20, is addicted to Hollywood horse operas and has already Saganalyzed her life in a bestseller written at 15, Adieu...
Besides transcending Senate factions, the Twenty as a group offer the only possibility of awakening Democrates from the opiate of the Eisenhower personality. The group offers Stevenson for the intellectual, Mme. Roosevelt for the downtrodden, Truman for the writers of vitriolic letters to newspapers, Estes for the plain folks, and Kennedy for the women. The combination of Democratic principle with Republican-style advertisable personalities is simply incredible...
...critics asked, is a museum the proper place for such a show? The New York Herald Tribune's Emily Genauer said the exhibit made her feel she had attended a dinner party with guests from Mme. Tussaud's waxworks. Said she: "Museums ought to stick to their originals. There is no shortage of them, old and new, in America." The New York Times's Howard Devree called it a "neon age substitute" and objected to the "inescapable tang of reproduction...
...controversial Mme. C. doubtless has earned her news space, but in this year of the Callas Met debut, may one respectfully request equal time for several other singers whose careers are based on their beautiful voices? Such artists have come by their fame the only way an operatic artist should-by their voices and not by their tantrums or their psychotic revenge drives...