Word: french
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before Christmas, Car Czar Henry Ford II and wife Anne will play host to some 1,000 guests at the Country Club of Detroit, which will be extensively redecorated, just for the evening, to provide proper dash and elegance for a ball whose theme will be 18th century French. Occasion: the coming-out of their daughter, Debutante Charlotte Ford, 18. The guest roster is a Who's-Really-Who of U.S. business, upper-crust society and showfolk, with a suitable seasoning of European nobility...
...flood victims in the French Riviera town of Fréjus (TIME, Dec. 14), Artist Pablo Picasso donated two of his still-life paintings for auctioning in Paris, appealed to all painters to follow suit by giving a canvas for the cause...
...Fighting Cock (adapted from the French of Jean Anouilh by Lucienne Hill) reveals an Anouilh more balanced than bitter in mood, and more effective as a philosophe than as a playwright. His play is an often witty variant on a persisting theme, perhaps all the more persisting because it poses an insoluble question. The Fighting Cock concerns a retired general disgusted by a world he finds filled with "cheats" and lost to honor. He would like to stir up a movement to get rid of the "maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number...
...obstacles. Perhaps the toughest was the discovery that the ground near Geneva trembles measurably every month or so. "It was found," says CERN's Canadian-born Jack MacCabe, "that these tremors were caused by Atlantic storm waves pounding on the beaches of France." To insulate the accelerator from French surf, the massive (3,800 tons) apparatus had to be mounted on a suspension system...
...begins the story of The Golden Fish, a prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival last May and now a candidate for an Oscar. Altogether the most charming short subject (running time: 18 minutes) in live action that the French film industry has produced since The Red Balloon (TIME, March 18, 1957), Fish swims along at a swift but graceful pace. Director Edmond Sechan tells his story clearly without words-and therefore without tiresome subtitles...