Word: salons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High point of Willkie's Syrian visit was his conversation at the palace with General Charles de Gaulle. Willkie entered the general's columned personal salon in his same blue business suit. De Gaulle, in white dress uniform with his hair plastered like a schoolboy's, was seated before paintings pf Napoleon as a youth and as Emperor and had a pedestaled bust of Napoleon at his left hand. He expressed his desire for a more important place at the United Nations council table. When Willkie suggested occasional compromises for purpose of unity, De Gaulle stood...
Gilbert Adrian, who was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's head dressmaker for 15 years and now has become simply Adrian, opened his divine new pink and blue couturier's salon in Beverly Hills last week at about the time that fighting men of the United Nations were raiding Dieppe...
Dream. Year ago Adrian decided it was time to make his dream come true. He had saved a lot of money and he married ex-Star Janet Gaynor (who people say is worth $4,000,000). He would have the most beautiful custom salon in the country. By September he had signed a ten-year lease for the Victor Hugo, once a fine restaurant,* then fancy nightclub, and planned expensive alterations. But when war came, his expenses, for a temporary shop on Beverly Drive, a factory in downtown Los Angeles, and Press Agent Russell Birdwell, were about...
...bright, auspicious weather on President Juan Antonio Rios' name day last week. In the red salon of the Moneda Palace he welcomed members of the Cabinet, chiefs of the Chilean armed forces, friends and school children, some of whom brought gifts. Among his name-day gifts one outshone all others: the official text of the Emergency Bill, giving Rios such power as few Presidents enjoy...
Further evidence of this liturgical shift came at the opening exhibition of the denomination's new Arts Guild "to foster religious use of the arts." This show was the first Salon of Religious Photography ever held. It featured before-&-after pictures of Congregational chancels that have been remodeled to put less emphasis on organ, organist and pulpit, make the communion table and cross the focal point...