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...takes so much love for a single flower to be born of a morning." Micheyl sings the songs in a lilting, open-throated voice, shaking her tight golden curls. Songs like Ni Toi Ni Moi, which celebrates the fact that love is stronger than anything, have moved Parisian poets and musicians to confer on a Micheyl record the Grand Prix du Bisque, a sort of musical Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Titi & Lorelei | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...fairly popular variation, the vandyke-beret combination affectation, like the man's from Phillips', has more the implication of the Parisian connoisseur...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Creeping Continentalism: In Search of the Exotic | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

Everywhere the Queen and Prince Philip went, Parisian crowds gathered to gape and cheer. Outside the opera the welcoming hordes pressed so close that the mounted guards had to drive them back with drawn swords. At a huge reception in the Louvre many of the 2,000-odd distinguished guests vied with each other for vantage points on the pedestals of world-famed works of art as museum guards shook their heads in despair. "I expected Marcus Aurelius to topple over on me at any moment," said one grande dame nervously. As the party broke up, even the footmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Vive la Reine! | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Before destiny sideswipes him, the lean, fiftyish Pippin is content to live on his unearned income and enjoy a nightly orgy of stargazing from the roof of his Parisian town house. More concierge than wife, Mme. Héristal rations out new telescopes with a parsimonious hand. Daughter Clotilde, 20, is addicted to Hollywood horse operas and has already Saganalyzed her life in a bestseller written at 15, Adieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If I Were King | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...Germany). In the U.S., where Hartung is having his first one-man show at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries, the Museum of Modern Art's Director of Collections Alfred Barr Jr. calls him "perhaps the best master of calligraphic abstraction." Hartung himself is more laconic. Asked by a Parisian art critic to describe how he painted, he replied: "I draw lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: LINES OF FORCE | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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