Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smuggled Pinballs. It began last year when a small-time Parisian hoodlum named Pierre Larcher, 38, got in trouble. Stocky, heavy-featured Pierre, known to the police derisively as "Pretty Boy," specialized in stealing cars and smuggling pinball machines into France. On the run and out of money, Pierre hid out in an abandoned farmhouse near tiny Grisy-lesPlâtres, 30 miles from Paris. There he read the French translation of an obscure 1953 novel about kidnapers, by Lionel White, called The Snatchers. Hurrying back to Paris, Pierre sought out his friend, Ray mond Rolland, 24. Tossing the book...
Riot Connoisseur. De Gaulle has managed to reduce the potency of French extremists. Even as the two men conferred, a few hundred demonstrators, led by Jacques Soustelle, marched down the Champs Elysees crying "Algerie Française!" and "Bourguiba assassin!" Most Parisians watched with indifference and went their way. One cafe waiter, a veteran connoisseur of Parisian riots, said contemptuously, "This is the merest caricature of a demonstration...
Sullen Lout. Gouffé, a well-to-do Parisian of respectable habits, vanishes and his brother-in-law Jacquemar appeals for help to Goron, the potbellied, hamster-cheeked chief of police. In some hundred pages of hard work and intuitive skill, Goron pieces together the scanty clues, finds Gouffe's body and arrests his undoubted murderers-a sullen lout named Eyraudt, who had fled to, of all places, Chicopee, Mass., and a young prostitute named Gabrielle Bompard, who makes even the smoldering Justine of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet appear fairly innocuous by comparison...
...Already Parisian shoe stores are selling copies of Vivier's square-toed look for as little as $6 a pair. In the U.S., shoemen anticipate that the chisel-toed look will take longer to catch on. But by fall, fashion setters bet that the feet of U.S. women will show that they too have gone square...
...Huggers. The triumph of the week and cause of the most excitement was the work of Christian Dior's little-known, untested Marc Bohan, 34. The Parisian-born son of a modiste, Bohan broke into haute couture in 1945 as an assistant designer at Patou, left Patou in 1958 to work under Dior's Boy Wonder Chief Designer Yves St. Laurent. When St. Laurent, after an unhappy stint in the French army, "retired" from Dior two months ago because of "ill health," Bohan, one of the few married male couturiers in Paris, took over. Few in Paris expected...