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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's spending plans (TIME, Aug. 12). The Defense Minister spoke reassuringly of sticking "to my best estimates." Retorted Gaillard: "I cannot accept any estimates, I need guarantees." Sighed the Labor Minister: "He must settle-this crisis at any cost. If we allow Félix Gaillard to walk out, he will become the most popular man in France." In the end, Gaillard got his way. But by then, with France's reserves depleted and its credit exhausted, the franc had fallen to 436 to the dollar on the free market, the lowest in five years...
...dozen fences. Last year the government's special contraband corps arrested 89 looters. Not realizing that much of the booty is stolen, and some faked, Americans bought 85% of the Etruscan objects in respectable-looking shops. Customs officers, traditionally easygoing with American tourists, let them pass. "Americans could walk out of Italy with the Colosseum," complained one contraband officer. But last month frontier customs guards caught an Austrian carrying a vase dating from the 6th century B.C. He got it, he said casually, from "old Renn-Rain...
...bassoonist (now with the Cleveland Symphony), Composer Bucci, 33, grew up "with a bassoon in my ear," resisted all family efforts to steer him away from music. He spent eight years in a Manhattan cold-water walk-up trying to learn to be a composer and being psychoanalyzed (his Tale suffers from pseudo-Freudian symbolism). Bucci failed to attract real attention until he set James Thurber's Thirteen Clocks to music for TV (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). Says Director Boris Goldovsky of Tangle-wood's opera department: "Bucci provides something which we have missed with most modern composers...
...luck to land in Los Angeles in the headiest heyday of the city and of Hearst newspapering. Hired at 19 by Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (for $7.50 a week). Canadian-born Richardson shrewdly plied the creed he learned as a cub on the old Winnipeg Telegram: "Walk like a newspaperman...
Born. To Elizabeth Taylor, 25, beauteous London-born cinemactress (Elephant Walk, Giant), and Mike Todd, 50, sled-jawed promoter-producer (Around the World in 80 Days); a daughter, their first child (her third, his second); in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth (Liza) Frances. Weight...