Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western airmen a World War I formation, long since discarded, known as the Lufbery circle, after Major Raoul Lufbery, U.S. pilot in France's Lafayette Escadrille...
...their hero generals of the first May 13, only Paratrooper Jacques Massu was still on hand, and he last week pointedly renewed his allegiance to De Gaulle. General Raoul Salan now has the innocuous post of commandant of Paris, and 1,500 other officers have been transferred out of Algeria. De Gaulle's Governor General, Paul Delouvrier, constantly reminds the Ultras that "policy is made in Paris, even for Algiers," last week bluntly told "those who would divide us" to "shut up or get out." The Ultras are still strong enough to spoil a birthday, but not to wreck...
Love Is My Profession (Raoul J. Levy; Kingsley International) is easily the peep-showiest, cheap-thrillingest of all the Brigitte Bardot pictures-and probably the best. Topnotch Whodunit Writer Georges Simenon furnished the novel (En Cas de Malheur) on which the film is based. Jean Gabin was hired to top the title. Actress Bardot was signed to bring up the rear in the box-office battle. And the slickest of the big French directors, Claude Autant-Lara (Devil in the Flesh, Rouge et Noir), has contrived to combine all these expensive, volatile elements into a smutty story that is technically...
...painting, which had been set apart from the rest, has been taken down. The canvas, which was labeled as "Boating Scene," by Raoul Dufy, "Bateaux sur la Marne," hangs in Brussels...
...Alert. As soon as De Gaulle took power, he restored Ely to his old job, encouraged him in the quiet dispersal of May 13 plotters, including General Raoul Salan, the overall commander in Algeria, who has now been made Commandant of Paris, an honorific post. But the sickness of the French army runs too deep to be cured by reassigning a few senior commanders. The real problem, as De Gaulle sees it, is to give France's young officers a mission more stimulating than colonial suppression...