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Sense of History. Before last week's reburial at the Pantheon, Moulin's remains had rested for two decades at Pere-Lachaise cemetery, and there were some skeptics who wondered at Charles De Gaulle's long delay in recognizing Moulin's great wartime contribution. Some saw the ceremony as designed to inaugurate De Gaulle's presidential campaign. But there come moments in France when political passion and factional rivalry are briefly overshadowed by a sense of history and literature. One such occurred when Andre Malraux, De Gaulle's Minister of Cultural Affairs and leading...
...Prudence Penny, Hyman Goldberg brings to the job more than the collection of old jokes that usually appear as preludes to his recipes. Cooking runs in the family. Goldberg pere taught his wife how to cook while he established a number of eateries in The Bronx and its summertime extension, the Catskills. Son Hyman was bending over hot stoves before he reached his teens, and he has accumulated the most impressive library of cookbooks in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, where he now lives. "My repertoire is catholic," he says. "I cook in Japanese, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese...
...their books on France, Andre Malraux, Albert Guerard (pere), Genevieve Tabouis (of the leftist L'Oeuvre), and the Popular Front's Minister of Air Pierre Cot argued that the doctrinaire opposition of these men to the Third Republic--their verbal and physical violence against it--had demoralized the French: in incompetence of her generals in the brief military campaign only made more swift the country's by then inevitable collapse. Since many on the Right went on to become collaborators with the Germans--at least in associating themselves with the Vichy government--and since, after the Liberation, almost...
...suffragan bishop of the nation's most blueblooded Episcopal diocese is the son of a dining-car waiter on the Pere Marquette Railroad. Upon his consecration two weeks ago as one of the two auxiliaries to Boston Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., the Rt. Rev John Melville Burgess became the first Negro† ever to serve the Protestant Episcopal Church as spiritual leader in a predominantly white diocese...
Juliette has just left her country home to marry the captain (Jean Daste), moving from one narrow atmosphere to another. Pere Jules' room, though the most cluttered, suggests wide horizons and exotic places to the innocent young wife, just as Pere Jules, though subhuman, represents the furthest reaches of human experience, particularly on a sensual level. He enchants her with his stories, and then wrestles here roughly into bed. The cats leap about hysterically...