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...simplest level, The Waters of Kronos is a long way from being original, but Author Richter's treatment of his story is, and his style has the pleasurable maturity of old wine. Like most mature writers, he has turned, at 69, to the secret recapitulations that round out a lifetime; almost of necessity he is grave, but never boring...
...system was much too crude to be Parisian, and Gabrielle Gaucher, 48, decided that the simplest solution was to introduce the call girl to France. Renting an office on Rue Laugier, not far from the Etoile, Gabrielle and a bookkeeper assistant soon assembled a list of some 400 personable girls. As the French once adopted the word "weekend," they borrowed "call girl," though some preferred to Frenchify it to téléfilles. When the clients came calling, Gabrielle had ready an album containing pictures of her téléfilles, and a brief paragraph that stated whether...
...Christ child asleep in a manger. The magnificent 18th century creche on TIME'S cover this week is one of the famous Neapolitan presepios that delighted King Charles III of Naples and his queen, who sewed garments of silk and velvet for such exquisitely wrought figurines. Using the simplest of materials-vegetable fibers on wire skeletons, wooden hands and feet, earthenware heads-noted Italian sculptors created these figures, which now enact the Christmas story in the apartment of a Neapolitan collector, where they were photographed by TIME'S David Lees. As the crèche appears on TIME...
...called "art silo" breaks with the tradition which has copied palaces for museums--European palaces which are, in fact, makeshift. With his genius for asking basic questions all over again, Wright searched for the simplest way to show pictures...
...throatily masculine baritone voice, an expressively mobile face and body and an air of casual virility that can curl the toes of every properly nourished female in the house. He works with few props-a top hat and a straw hat, a cane and an umbrella-but his simplest movements are vibrant with innuendo. Singing entirely in French, he baited his audiences last week into a wonderful medley of moods. In Ma Môme, Ma P'tite Môme he was every woman's protective lover, as his shoulder and arms curved in a possessive embrace...