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...when Premier Ben Amar submitted his cabinet list to the new French Resident General, Pierre Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, it was the Frenchman who would not accept. Only after Ben Amar dropped two out of six Neo-Destourians was his ten-man team approved. Every man on it is a moderate (what the French call "calm"). This week at a formal investiture, they kissed the right palm and left shoulder of the Bey of Tunis, received his "blessing of Allah...
...credits printed so small that no one over 39 could read it. TIME'S review of The Earrings of Madame De [July 26] says: "The triumph belongs to Director Max Ophuls." The triumph, also belongs to Louise de Vilmorin, well-known French novelist, beauty [see cut], and femme du monde. Her short story, originally called Madame de-, first appeared in 1951 in a French literary magazine [the Revue de Paris] and was an instant success . . . Madame de Vilmorin claims that she wrote it at high speed, and did not even pause to give her heroine a name: Paris society...
...protectorate-collectively a powerful group-for whom a Tunisian government would mean loss of jobs. To placate the colons, Mendès last week removed Resident General Pierre Voizard, whom the settlers regard as too soft, and appointed a new Resident, hard-bitten Lieutenant General Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, commander of French forces in Tunisia, who is popular with the colons...
...19th century and moved westward again to America. Sweet and cool as a sundae, the canvas shows the best of Boucher's easy sensualism. Because his temperament accorded perfectly with his time and place, and because of his decorative genius, Boucher was showered with honors, made Peintre du Roi and Director of the Paris Academy. His fame perished in the French Revolution-to be eventually restored by posterity. Curiously, his Diana is not Diana at all, but Jupiter, who seduced Callisto in the guise of a goddess...
...aviation stocks have been soaring. Quarterly sales were up 11% to $253 million and earnings up 79% to $4.20 a share. Except for the textile, steel and auto industries, most big corporations did well. General Foods reported the biggest second-quarter earnings in its history: up 90% to $1.88; Du Pont's first-half earnings were up 33% to $3.22 a share; National Gypsum (building materials) up 48% to $2.09; Allis-Chalmers...