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...Parisian Shakedown. The contagion of violence reached to Paris itself. There the supporters of Messali Hadj's Algerian National Movement and those of the National Liberation Front formerly directed by Cairo-based leaders such as the captured Mohammed ben Bella, feuded like Chicago-style gangs over the privilege of shaking down the city's 80,000 Algerians for contributions. One Algerian objected that he did not want to take sides; his body was fished out of the Seine a few days later. Café owners who contributed to the National Liberation Front had their stocks smashed by Hadj...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Algerian Bloodshed | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...dynamite blast, M.C. Gerald devotes six minutes of each program to showing a UPA (United Productions of America) film already seen in theaters, the rest to new material. This week little Gerald ran off UPA's version of Ludwig Bemelmans' picture tale, Madeline, putting his twelve little Parisian schoolgirls into animation that catches not only the image but also the spirit of the original. Fresh from the drawing board came The Twelve Days of Christmas, an imaginatively designed illustration of the old song; Alouette, a gentle fable about a bird that blossoms only uncaged, and Freezeyum, the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Light Touch | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...whispered news after parading with Bourguiba to the cheers of 370,000 Tunisians. In Paris Guy Mollet gasped: "It's crazy. I don't believe it." At a midnight conference Mollet accepted the accomplished fact, and the immediate political advantage it gave him. Next morning all Parisian newspapers except the Communist L'H'umanite cheered the French kidnaping. Mollet, declining to surrender rebels "already condemned by French justice,"* won a massive 330-140 vote of confidence. Only ex-Premier Pierre Mendés-France asked whether "those who organized and ordered the action made any attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Aerial Kidnap | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Born. To Gregory Peck, 40, lanky cinemactor (Moby Dick), and Véronique Passani, 24, onetime Parisian newshen: a son, their first child (his fourth); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anthony. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

NOBILITY MARKET CRASHES headlined one Parisian newspaper. "It's only normal," said Robert-Henri Bautier as cries of anguish from France's patricians poured in from every side, "that they refuse to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dishonorable Discharge | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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