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Elaine (Percy Faith's orchestra with oboe solo by Mitch Miller; Columbia, also Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra with musette-accordion solo by Henri Rene; Victor). One of those bittersweet tunes from a French movie (Violettes Imperiales), on which both companies lavished top performers. The Columbia version has Miller's familiar buttery oboe tone; Victor presents Winterhalter in one of his loud moods, with plenty of braying horns...
...right, and his heart is on the left, exactly what is needed for a majority of the center." Besides, all that the Assembly wanted was a "summer Premier" who would not disturb things much. Laniel obligingly named six former Premiers to his cabinet, keeping Bidault as Foreign Minister and Rene Pleven as Defense Minister, and making his old right-wing friend, Paul Reynaud, a deputy Premier...
Celtic Queen. "The Greeks wrote all the histories," says an academic proverb, "and gave themselves all the breaks." During their peak, the Greeks described western Europe as inhabited chiefly by unseemly savages. This ancient triumph of propaganda was somewhat damaged recently when Rene Joffroy, professor of philosophy and an ardent archaeologist, dug into a Celtic tomb near Chatillon-sur-Seine in eastern France...
...from 1920 to 1925, three Wimbledon titles (he was the first American to win in England), eleven Davis Cup teams, including a phenomenal stretch from 1920 to 1925 when he never lost a match. Only one player ever got under Tilden's weather-beaten skin: France's Rene Lacoste, one of the famed "Four Musketeers" who wrested the Davis Cup from the U.S. in 1927. Remarked haughty Bill Tilden: "The monotonous regularity with which that unsmiling, drab, almost dull man returned the best I could hit ... often filled [me] with a wild desire to throw my racket...
...sterile refusal to join anti-Communist coalitions of either Left or Right has been the main cause of the instability of recent French governments. Only when a large section of his party threatened to bolt last January did De Gaulle give grudging permission to his deputies to support Premier Rene Mayer...