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An ordinary Frenchman trying to squeeze into the tiny French intellectual elite is like Charles de Gaulle trying to squeeze into the back seat of a baby Renault. Yet room at the top is always open for top graduates of Louis-le-grand, France's most prestigious lycé...
The British are succumbing to the U.S. mania for trading stamps, and another Battle of Britain is under way. Thirty trading-stamp companies are already in operation, giving out stamps in 35,000 stores. Britain's Green Shield, which sells 60% of all the stamps in circulation, has done...
Edwin Booth, of course, acted the first 100 in 1864-65 in New York; Irving doubled this in 1874 in London for the record. Tree performed more than 100 at the Haymarket in 1892. John Barrymore ran 101 performances in 1922-23 (to purposely top Booth). Gielgud's London...
New Low. From the right, apertura's chief challenge was among the free-enterprising Liberals, who more than doubled their previous vote of 1,000,000; this was a spectacular gain, even if it amounted to only 7% of the total turnout. Most of the credit went to tireless...
Slated for a continued five-year term as President is Nicolas Grunitzky, 50, the mulatto son of a Prussian doctor and Togolese mother who headed a pro-French puppet regime before Olympio gained independence from Paris in 1960, and who was called upon to take over as Provisional President last...