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Henri Bonnet was the logical Frenchman. In an illogical world, the astute historian and ambassador moved warily and worriedly. He spoke with a Frenchman's concern for le mot juste, suggested compromises with a quiet desperation. In his suite at the Hotel Pierre he served his colleagues sherry and petits fours. At week's end, no one was more relieved than he that UNO still held the Big Three...
...Returning Veteran which the MARCH OF TIME is releasing this month to more than 10,000 theaters across the country. We like to think that MARCH OF TIME films like this add a new dimension of action to much of the news you read in TIME itself. For MOT's purpose is to do in motion pictures what TIME tries to do for you in words: tell you the news as history in the making. It was just ten years ago this spring that MOT released its first picture-and only 417 theaters in the whole United States were...
...Recently MOT has developed a series of special "Forum Edition" films for study and discussion in the nation's clubs and classrooms. (In three months more than 1,700 schools subscribed for a year of these films.) And one of its regular releases was shown in war plants all over the country to build the morale of industrial workers. (Said the Aero Products Division of General Motors after showing this film : "Absenteeism took a sharp decline sharp decline - and has never gone back to the old figures.") In its early days MOT touched on as many as six topics...
...Hugo tells it), the strange Yankeeism had been brilliantly and broadly translated by General Pierre Jacques Etienne de Cambronne, commanding the last square of Napoleon's Old Guard. To a British demand for surrender the General shouted: "Merde!"-now proudly (but euphemistically) cited by fastidious Frenchmen as le mot de Cambronne-"Cambronne's [four-letter] word...
...Pardon Me, Madame . . ." Jimmy Durante is, for example, no ordinary word mangler. There are manglers galore in show business, but Jimmy has a poet's ear for the mot injuste ("Let me hear that high note, maestro ! . . . What a note ! . . . A promissory note, if I ever heard one!'") And Jimmy is a past master of timing-that comedian's sine qua non. In the grand old days of the comedy team of (Lou) Clayton, (Eddie) Jackson and Durante, which broke up in 1931, Jimmy led them in a repertory of nightclub shenanigans (elaborately punctuated by a disreputable...