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...only the medieval backdrop gave the scene a curiously old-fashioned air. A scrupulous republican, Charles de Gaulle nonetheless seeks to recall a past regal grandeur (last week his photograph, in the evening dress uniform of an armored-forces general, was ordered displayed in every public building in France). And in the same grand manner, De Gaulle at Bourges took up the national nightmare that has haunted Frenchmen for 4½ bloody years...
With her last strength she turns to look at a photograph of her daughter. Smiling peacefully, she dies. The funeral takes place in a Hollywood reconstruction of the little old neighborhood Baptist church -an edifice that looks suspiciously like Westminster Abbey on Coronation...
Your April 13 photograph of Boston's Cardinal Cushing taking the political stump for Senator John Kennedy's henchman implants the kiss of death on the Boston Boy Wonder's presidential hopes...
...every ten adult male Americans is a conductor at heart, if not in mind and basic education, Victor has issued 35,000 of the albums, happily expects to get demands for more. In Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, Victor is building a podium before a wall-sized photograph of the Boston Symphony, plans to invite passers-by in to conduct behind closed doors. Actually, home conducting may be a healthy thing, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Edmund Bergler: it provides the amateur with sublimating relief from the gnawing "infantile megalomania" that afflicts every man who ever wanted to lift...
...decided to become an archaeologist, steadily enlarged his collection with money from his wealthy banker-father. By 1924 he had enough to establish his own museum in Trieste, wangled a small subsidy from the Italian government. In 1937 he bought a strategically located house in Trieste where he could photograph any future bombardment. It came when the Allies attacked the German garrison of the city in the closing months of World War II. "I had to wait seven years," he gloats, "but it was worth...