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...ministers of France's Fifth Republic seated themselves in gilt armchairs in scrupulous order of rank in the half-darkened Salle des Fêtes of Paris' Elysée Palace. As they did so, lights flooded the pink brocade curtains at the entrance to the onetime royal box that overlooks the room. Precisely at the stroke of four, white-gloved hands parted the curtains, and Charles de Gaulle, blinking against the lights, appeared in the box to open his second press conference since he became President of France eleven months...
...kiss. "I was so happy I wished I could die," says Maria. On the way back to the car, Hitler told her that his ideal was to marry and have blond children, but that he must save Germany first. After that, there were tète-à-tètes in Hitler's Munich apartment, and they dreamed aloud of their future together...
Striding one afternoon last week into the gilded Salle des Fêtes of the Elysée Palace, Charles de Gaulle took a seat in solitary grandeur upon an orchestra platform, signaled the beginning of the first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that followed, the 600 newsmen present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France...
...Murrow duo this time worried less about making history than reporting it, and NBC laid on durable old (78) Hans V. Kaltenborn (it was his 18th convention) with his blackboard doodlings and a lofty contempt for all the fancy new gadgetry. The NBC tète-à-tètes were again larded with the deadpan humor of Commentator David Brinkley. Between conventions, ABC's baggy-eyed John Daly squeezed in a Manhattan trip to appear on What's My Line?, reported: "The panel told me I look tired. Well, how the hell was I supposed to look...
...gallery will be a loan exhibition of some 50 paintings and drawings by such other 18th-century French painters as Pater, Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, testimony to the fact that the tone of elegance and grace set by Watteau in his dreamlike scenes of pastoral dalliance and fétes galantes continued straight through his century until the French Revolution...