Word: renee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rene Fonck, 50, World War I French Ace of Aces (75 German planes) and World War II Vichy collaborationist, tried out a new role. R.A.F. Sergeant George Cole, back from a parachute landing in Belgium, told the story. Knocked unconscious by his jump, Cole awoke in a monastery where he was silently waited on for three days by monks sworn to perpetual silence. Finally he was driven back to his base by a non-silent, keenly airminded monk who began questioning him closely about the air war. Flyer Cole said that his robed driver was ex-Flyer Fonck...
Economists, like other theologians, are mutually intolerant: Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet was no longer big enough to contain both of its respected doctors of finance. Minister of National Economy Pierre Mendès-France is a peppery proponent of controlled deflation, and Minister of Finance Rene Pleven, a suave supporter of controlled inflation. One day last week M. Mendès-France called on General de Gaulle, left his resignation. Two days later M. Pleven became Minister of National Economy and Finance...
...Want to Go Back." In Hollywood, meanwhile, the great master of the prewar French cinema, Rene Clair, summed things up for himself and his fellow expatriates, Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier: "I want to go back. You can make films you can't make here. People in America go to the theater to see people, not ideas...
...Pilots of the day force are in readiness from an hour before dawn to an hour after dark. It is a dangerous business: the R.A.F. rewards it by giving Distinguished Flying Crosses for every ten robombs downed. The highest individual score last week was 27 shot down, credited to Rene van Lierde, a Belgian...
After he made The 3Q Steps (1935), Hollywood had its eye on Hitchcock. He was not only England's leading director; he was, with Rene Clair, possibly the most brilliant of all directors of fiction films. In 1938 he signed with David O. Selznick, because he thought Selznick produced Hollywood's best pictures. But he takes no back talk from Selznick. As a result, he fares better than any other Selznick property. Selznick lend-leased Hitchcock to-20th Century-Fox to make Lifeboat for $200,000. Hitch pocketed...