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...suffering from a broken heart, and her doctor knew just what to prescribe: opera. He ordered an alcove constructed in her bedchamber, and there artists nightly performed excerpts from the operatic works of the great French composer Lully. Before long (as a music historian during the reign of Louis XIV tells it) the patient was cured of severe melancholia, which she had originally contracted when her lover jilted...
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ethel Merman and Larry Blyden play a landlady and her tenant who conspire to steal a $2,000,000 jeweled scepter once wielded by Louis XIV. Color...
...Ministry of Public Works approved the sum. The Court of Accounts said no, and for good measure annulled the 90 million-lire appropriation as well. Cleaning up the bureaucratic mess is the goal of the Department for the Reform of Public Administration, headed by Luigi Preti, known as "Luigi XIV" because the department has had 13 previous heads in 17 years. Preti admits he has not had much luck. "Whoever tries to reform finds himself up against a rubber wall," he sighs. "If it were a steel wall, you could take a cannon and knock it down. But the rubber...
PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A deft biography of the neglected French military genius who furthered the fortunes of the Hapsburgs after Louis XIV insulted the young man by telling him he was fit only for the priesthood...
...Gaullist. This position gives him a rare detachment: he is able to write knowledgeably about De Gaulle while avoiding both the admiration of a follower and the jealousy of an opponent. The King and His Court resembles the Duc de Saint-Simson's colorful Memoirs about life with Louis XIV, full of sympathy and gossip, yet it retains the ironical view-point of a journalist somewhat skeptical about De Gaulle's lofty designs...