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While Schuyler's play illustrates the danger of triteness, The Man Who Walked in a Ray of Sunshine, translated by Roger Shattuck from the French verse of Rene Char, shows how an interesting idea can be obscured by too conscious a striving for economy. Set at the gates of Heaven, the play concerns a cocky young man who dances to seduce an angel sent to judge whether he is worthy of admission. He fails; she dances away and lets him fall, and a jury of humans, sitting outside the gates, exits in disgust at the rejection of its fair-haired...
...weeks Giap slowly edged three crack divisions, perhaps 36,000 men, around the periphery of Dienbienphu. Last week he was ready. Artillery fire poured in. Early one morning the radiotelephone crackled in Hanoi H.Q. of General Rene Cogny, the three-star commander of French Union forces in north Viet Nam. The voice of the garrison commander at Dienbienphu told Cogny the news: Giap was attacking at last...
Defense Minister Rene Pleven, who has been heading a fact-finding mission in Indo-China, left Saigon for Paris this week, and the prospect was that his group would recommend cease-fire negotiations with the Viet Minh Communists. Pleven, generally helpful and sympathetic to U.S. strategic aims, warned that the outcome at Geneva is "unpredictable," and he also said that France would go to the meeting "as a great nation without fear and reproaches, which did not want this war but does not surrender to violence and does not abandon her friends...
Museum Director Rene d'Harnoncourt had been planning the exhibition for a decade, gathered some 400 objects from museums and private collectors throughout the Western Hemisphere...
...Yvon Delbos. 5. Marcel Naegelen. 3. Rene Coty...