Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRENCH Commander Colonel Raoul Lehagre heard that three Communist battalions had joined near the Catholic village of An Hiep, in the upper end of the Cis Bassac wedge. To attack them, he sent 1) a battalion of the Foreign Legion; 2) two battalions of Vietnamese and Annamite units; 3) two batteries of 25-pounders; 4) a squadron of the small amphibious vehicles called "Weasels." A tiny navy of LCMs and LCVPs (small landing craft) under Ensign Pierre Le-corche was ordered to hold the Mekong River line...
...arthritis better after nine months' treatment in a Boston hospital, Raoul Dufy, 73, French master of fine line and delicate color, had some advice for young artists: "The one big fault with Americans is that they do not see what is around them until they see it in a picture . . . the young American artist [should] learn to see, to break himself of the habit of not seeing. I would say to him, break all the cameras, never take a photograph, never look at a photograph. Then paint...
...perhaps, since the play is a London success, the "fault" is merely the difference of taste on this side of the Atlantic. Gilbert Miller has provided an uncommonly beautiful production. Georges Wakevitch's garden setting is handsome; Raymond Sovey's lighting makes it respond fully to the action. Raoul Dufy has contributed six "mood" curtains, and Francis Poulene has contemplated the play with background music. The shortcomings of the comedy are not the result of economizing. Although "Ring Round the Moon" is not as perfect a bit of entertainment as had been hoped, it is still a fine evening...
...designs by letting the pure colorless crystal* "do what the material wants to do." The designs, said Gates, fell esthetically "somewhere between the curves of the Taj Mahal and the straight lines of the Empire State Building." From time to time they called on such outside artists as Raoul Dufy, Thomas Hart Benton, Salvador Dali, Jean Hugo and Moise Kisling. Steuben never tried to figure out what the taste of customers might be. Says Houghton loftily: "We made taste." By 1935, Steuben taste had made Steuben a success...
...antitrust laws and split into three separate companies. The parallels go deeper. The Barons is largely the story of Stuart. His divorce, which rocked Susquehanna society, his long and tragic attempt to marry his third cousin, Philippa, his law suit and feud with his family over disposal of Raoul's 40,000 shares of Baron common that forced him out of the company, all find their counterparts in Wilmington fact or legend...