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FRANCE Positively In the uncontrovertible style of William Tecumseh Sherman's "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected,"* France's genial President Vincent Auriol, 68, last week put a crisp end to rumors that he would seek a second seven-year term this fall. "I will not be a candidate for my own succession, either in the third round of voting or the two hundredth," he said...
...Manhattan, for the second year in a row, the Harmon International Aviation Award for the year's outstanding performance by an aviatrix went to French Test Pilot Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of President Vincent Auriol. Her 1952 prizewinning feat: topping her own world's jet speed record for women by flying a 62-mile closed course at an average 531.843 m.p.h...
...years of parliamentary regimes had France been a whole month without a Premier. "A moral and social crisis," said President Vincent Auriol, calling on 21 leading French politicians to pick a man for the job. They could not agree. The Socialists walked out. But 18 others, including nine ex-Premiers, worked out measures they thought they could all agree on, at least long enough to form a government. On this basis, President Auriol asked one of them, Antoine Pinay, a small-town leather merchant who was Premier for most of last year, to try. Pinay agreed "to think it over...
...France's sixth annual Kermesse aux Etoiles (Carnival of Stars), President Vincent Auriol awarded French Oscars (bronze statuettes of Winged Victory) to a number of movie stars, including Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck. When his award was announced, Hollywood's Cooper applauded vigorously. After nudging him into silence, Cinemactress Gisele Pascal explained her tall friend's embarrassing antics to the astonished crowd: "He doesn't understand a word of French...
Priests preached no sermons last Sunday in the Roman Catholic diocese of Raleigh, N.C. Instead, they read a letter from Bishop Vincent S. Waters ending in one stroke all racial segregation in the Catholic churches of his diocese...