Word: poisson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show was Haiti's entry: 28 stiffly drawn, riotously colored genre paintings and still lifes by such esoteric unknowns as Hector Hyppo-lite, a voodoo priest who claims his brush is guided by St. John the Baptist; a 24-year-old ex-houseboy named Castera Bazile, and Louverture Poisson, a mechanic in the Haitian Air Force. They were all the proteges of a self-effacing young U.S. artist with a mission...
...Chinese Cabinet, which was tussling with the inflation problem. He talked with China's Chief of Staff General Ho Ying-chin. He talked with the Gissimo through the fluently translating Missimo. At President Lin Sen's mansion Willkie sampled a succulent Chinese-French cuisine including poisson du Yangtze au bain Marie and champignons du Fukien á la volaille. Willkie tried chopsticks, but quickly fell back on knife & fork...