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Stifled Scandals. French newspapers hinted at wider repercussions, at even more extensive political involvements. "The search for truth in this affair," cautioned L'Express, "will require justices with plenty of independence and magistrates with plenty of character and a high sense of duty." The lawyers on one side of the case included the attorney who once represented King Mohammed V of Morocco, and ex-Premier Edgar Faure, whose government had given Morocco its independence. Paris-Presse warned that "other characters" who have played "great roles in our postwar history" might come into the case, warned: "This affair must...
Adjectival Search. In 1946 Princess Maria Gabriella, then aged six, left Italy with her father, Umberto II, who was known as "the King of May" because he had ruled only for that month, been ousted when the Italian people narrowly voted out the monarchy and voted in a republic. She was raised in exile in a seaside villa at Cascais in Portugal, and, when she was 17, she took leave of her dethroned father and her English governess to join her mother, Queen Marie José, in Switzerland and attend Geneva University...
...American-made projector that costs Harvard $300 serves the purpose no better than a Russian model that costs $24.50 (plus 40% duty) delivered in New York. Adds Dr. Albert Navez, whose high school program in Newton, Mass, last year turned out both winners of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search (TIME, March 17): "It's a little bit fantastic, after we've been told their equipment is so rudimentary, to find this remarkable stuff...
...last week, spokesmen for the U.S. theater were singing the blues about life on the road. Whether in Bridgeport or Ashtabula, St. Joe or Altoona, so few citizens west of the Main Stem are paying to see touring shows that a conference of theater operators met in Manhattan to search for a way to boost show business in the sticks, or, as Variety might say, to look for trix to fix stix...
Other stories range from the fantastic to the philosophical. Martin the Novelist is a Pirandelphic yarn in which characters search out the author and argue their rights and reality. The Wine of Paris presents a mad alcoholic, a most happy fella who thinks that other people are bottles of wine. With its cork-popping wit and full-bodied bouquet of pain, joy and wonder, Across Paris is vintage Ayme from a small but peerless literary vineyard...