Word: soir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist correspondents, whom they see every day at Panmunjom, are often a better source of truce-talk news than the sparse briefings by U.N.'s own information officers. From such men as Alan Winnington of the London Daily Worker and Wilfred Burchett of Paris' pro-Communist Ce Soir, U.N. correspondents have extracted Red reaction to U.N. proposals even before the U.N. negotiators announced that the proposals had been made. And high-ranking U.N. officers have frequently asked correspondents what the Red reaction seemed to be. Many U.N. newsmen disliked fraternizing with Red correspondents, but feared they would...
Last week his name turned up on the Communist list of U.N. prisoners, and this week Wilfred Burchett, Australian-born correspondent for the Paris Communist daily Ce Soir, told allied newsmen that he had interviewed Dean only a few days earlier, in a Red prison camp at Pyongyang. They had talked for three hours over drinks of gin. Burchett relayed Dean's story...
...snapped up all but six by week's end, thought the new Kislings better than ever. Wrote Critic Jean Bouret of Arts: "How simple good painting is. It is not to be found in discussions, in estheticism, in intellect, but in sensualism, joy and serenity." The France Soir's critic called Kisling the "painter of happiness and tenderness . . . The only Central European painter who has not brought us morose complexes...
Paris' Samedi Soir called it le drame politico-passlonnel. The principal characters: Subway Conductor Jean Laffargue, 41, his wife Yvonne, 37, and Rene ("Little Napoleon") Desvillettes, 47, mayor of the deep-Red Communist suburb of Champigny. All three were loyal Communists and diligent party workers. Trouble started when the politico got mixed up with the passionnel...
...afternoon of punting on the Thames. One was 41-year-old Alan Winnington, British correspondent for the Communist London Daily Worker, who has been denounced in Parliament as a traitor (TIME, May 21); the other was Australian Wilfred Burchett, 39, a reporter for Paris' Communist daily, Ce Soir. They are the only Western newsmen covering the war from the Red side...