Word: ren
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Died. Colonel René Fonck, 59, France's top air ace of World War I (in 32 months of aerial combat he got credit for 75 kills, unofficial credit for 51 more); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris. A national hero after the 1918 armistice, Fonck turned to civilian flying, narrowly escaped death when his S-35 crashed on the take-off of a 1926 transatlantic attempt. Back in uniform in 1939, Colonel Fonck led a fighter group until France fell, in 1942 disguised himself as a Trappist monk and helped organize an escape route through Belgium for downed...
...René Clair, most famous of the French moviemakers, foresaw another consequence of the wide-screen revolution. Quick, frequent shifts from one image to another would be impossible in CinemaScope. The eye cannot take in so large an image in one glance, and the mind is irritated by too rapid change of an image so encompassing that it seems like an environment...
...that it might be wise for the Big Three to get together. Last April 15, the day before his foreign-policy speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (TIME, April 27), the President called up Britain's Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and France's Premier René Mayer to brief them on his message. During the transatlantic phone talk, there was mention of a Big Three meeting. It was all very tentative. Eisenhower felt that the timing for such a conference was not yet right...
That old melodrammer The Perils of Marianne went into a new chapter last week. With France being sucked into the buzz saw of bankruptcy, strikes threatening the mortgage on the old homestead, Premier René Mayer had one of those ideas which come only to topflght scenarists and agile politicians. Picking up the transatlantic telephone, he asked Washington: What about a Big Three international conference? The answer was: it's on the way (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Said René Mayer: "Once again a singularly inopportune demonstration of that phenomenon of political instability which discredits France in the world and the regime in the country." At week's end President Vincent Auriol was still scanning the hills for sight of a new Premier...