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...mot is always welcome, particularly when it is appropriate, and a modicum of merde when skillfully handled imparts a zest to TIME'S fine flavor. However, it seems improbable that Jean Boewet [TIME, May 10], contemplating the "experts with briefcases," could have employed the immortal expletive of Cambronne...
What would Jean Boewet say to all that? He would probably just shrug. Experts with briefcases, speeches in committees! If he had a word for it, it would doubtless be le mot de Cambronne.* And even those committees, most of them, were hardly more than at Halfway House : nobody was surrendering any national sovereignty just yet. But there was more to come. At The Hague this week, Europeans who want a United States of Europe will gather to talk it over. No government has sponsored their meeting, but hundreds of British and French publicists and politicians, including Winston Churchill, will...
...shelled $339,000 off the picture's "nut," without sacrificing the essentials of the story. Loew agreed to stay in. In September, So This Is New York finally went into production-and came out $30,000 under the final budget. Even silent Stan Kramer got off a bon mot: "Now we can put our ulcers in escrow...
...goals were just one too many twice for the brace of soccer teams which mot Yale Friday afternoon, as both Varsity and Freshmen went down to defeat 2 to 1. Both Crimson outfits were battling to preserve excellent records as well as roll over their biggest opponent, with Coach MacDonald's men defending their best slate in nine years...
TIME Inc.'s participation in this project came about when Frank B. Lindsay, chief of secondary education for the California State Department of Education, asked if we would supply copies of our magazines, MARCH OF TIME Forum films, MOT radio recordings and related study materials for the experiment. As a result, although TIME Inc. had no say in directing the study, 2,013 students in 15 California high schools (chosen to give a wide variety of localities and economic backgrounds) used TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and other publications for their basic school assignments, textbooks for collateral reading...