Word: res
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place names of Flemish towns ring like bugles. They tell of bloody and costly battles in wars over the centuries: Courtrai, Passendale, Ypres ("Wipers" to the Tommy of World War I), and Armentiéres (whose "Mademoiselle" was invented to wipe out the memory of grimmer realities). In World War II, the tragedy and heroism of Dunkirk were played out on a Flemish beach...
...next decade the Donald Merretts, or the Ronald Chesneys as they liked to call themselves, lived high, wide & handsome, spending most of their time touring the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the Armentières. They were often joined in their cruising by Mrs. Chesney's mother, who called herself "Lady" Mary Menzies. When Donald's fondness for gay company and Isobel's fondness for gin at last drove them apart in 1937, Lady Mary and her daughter went back to London, bought a large house in Ealing, and opened a boardinghouse for genteel elderly ladies...
...meeting Galsworthy: "So pure, so high-minded . . . that I wanted to shout for the Folies Bergères...
...seven jurors rather than the accused, and attempts to show how their different personalities and problems influence their verdicts-e.g. a farmer (Marcel Pérés) who believes his wife is betraying him finds the defendant guilty, while a café waiter (Raymond Bussières) who is in love finds her not guilty...
...greatest Government enterprises: TVA and the Atomic Energy Commission. In his books and innumerable lectures he sang the praises of what he called "people's businesses." A year and a half ago, however. David Lilienthal went into private enterprise as a consultant to Lazard Fréres & Co., New York investment bankers. (His chief current interest: management of Philadelphia's Attapulgus Minerals & Chemical Corp.) This week he had a new book on the market with a title that, at first sight, might jolt his old New Deal disciples. The title: Big Business: A New Era (Harper...