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...Dust Gatherers. It strained credulity that Pesquet, a political nobody, had succeeded in "teleguiding" so experienced a lawyer and cold-blooded an operator as null Mitterrand. Pesquet's peculiar personal history suggested another explanation. A man who maintains two homes on no visible income, Pesquet has eight times been accused of offenses ranging from fraud to seduction, but each time the proceedings have been suspended. To practiced students of French affaires, such a record argued that Pesquet had made himself useful to the police-and thus perhaps had come to Mitterrand's notice when he was Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: LAffaire, I'Affaire | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...used by eleven airlines. Its main lobby is bigger than the main concourse of either Grand Central or Pennsylvania stations. To handle the 2.3 million passengers expected to move through it next year on 104 daily flights, the terminal is equipped with inclined ramps instead of stairways, a null electronic flight-information board, three-lane enclosed auto driveways that lead into the first and second floors, a dining room, cocktail lounge, and arcades for shops. Jutting out on either side of the terminal are two null loading arcades that can handle as many as 24 aircraft at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Bigger Than Grand Central | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...literary investigator has been around for little more than 100 years. The world's first detective bureau was established in Paris by Eugene null Vidocq in 1817, but it was not until 1841 that Edgar Allan Poe recognized the adventure available to a man who was a detective without being a public cop. Auguste Dupin, the intellectual Eye who was the hero of Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, was a Parisian gentleman devoted to the dual task of outthinking a murderer and outwitting the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...Naxos with the San Francisco Opera. Last summer she took her great voice to Europe, won loud ovations in both London and Spoleto. Last week she received the most cherished honor of all: an invitation to sing with the Metropolitan Opera. Next season, Met Manager Rudolf Bing announced, null will be cast in the title role of Gluck's Alcestis. an opera last heard at the Metropolitan at Kirsten Flagstad's emotion-packed farewell performance in 1952. Said Soprano Farrell"I guess there wasn't anyone else around who could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Star for the Met | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Commanding a null income at 35, pudgy, archangel-faced Leslie Stevens is one of the hottest writer-tycoons in or out of the smog. He is also one of Hollywood's new breed: the curious combination of corporation executive and creative artist that is taking over the town. On Broadway, Stevens' Marriage-Go-Round, with Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert, is spinning briskly into its second season. The pilot shows for a couple of TV series are ready for production. The Pink Jungle, his new, Broadway-bound comedy about the cosmetics industry, is in rehearsal. And last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Happy Hack | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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