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...gallon charged in France. An estimated 1,500,000 Frenchmen had left France by last week to vacation in Spain, Holland or Switzerland, and the visitors arriving to take their place numbered only 60% of normal. "We are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs," moaned the Parisian newspaper L'Aurore. But the geese were still flying, high and far and fast, all over the rest of Europe...
ROBERT DELAUNAY was a big, blond, bright-eyed Parisian who had a passion for painting and was inordinately ambitious. As a youth, wrote Gertrude Stein, Delaunay "was always asking how old Picasso had been when he had painted a certain picture. When he was told he always said, Oh I am not as old as that yet. I will do as much when I am that'age." When he was only 21, he submitted Manege de Cochons (a twirling semi-abstract with pigs racing about and black-stockinged legs and top-hatted figures joining in the carrousel of life...
Watching the hue and cry that swept over West Germany after the incident, the Parisian newspaper Le Monde gloomily saw the accident as new proof of the power of command over Germans: "Command is still the absolute master. Once this command led to crime, today to suicide. It is strange to see how a people can rely so blindly on those who give it orders. Poor Germans...
Divorced. Edith Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow; real name: Gassion), 41, birdlike (4 ft. 11 in., 91 Ibs.) French cabaret singer (La Vie en Rose); from Jacques Pills, 48, French songwriter; after 4½ years of marriage, no children; in Paris...
Bittersweet Memories. If Mick Micheyl is a Parisian spring breeze, Juliette Greco is a gust from a dark grotto. In Manhattan last week, with her weedy dark hair hanging to her waist, she chanted in French the bittersweet songs that have made her famous at home. Her large, square hands shaped the phrases; her high-cheekbonsd, chalky face was alternately sullen and sad. In her best song, I Hate Sundays ("Every day of the week is empty and hollow, but there's worse than the weekday, there's pretentious Sunday"), her voice faded to an organ whisper. Even...