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...GAULLE lives in stone houses. In cosmopolitan Paris, home is the buff-colored Elysée Palace, an elaborate 18th century pleasure dome that belonged to Mme. de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV. In rural Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, home is a 14-room château of grey limestone surrounded by formal gardens and groves of elm and pine. In both, le grand Charles tries to keep life as simple and uncomplicated as possible...
Silent Phones. Mornings in Paris, De Gaulle is awakened at 7 by his shy, grey-eyed wife Yvonne, for he will permit neither clocks nor radio in his bedroom. After a breakfast of black coffee and dry toast (croissants on Thursdays and Sundays), De Gaulle changes from striped pajamas to one of the ten double-breasted suits (navy blue, black, or charcoal grey) chosen and laid out by his valet, scans the morning papers and listens to the 8:15 news broadcast before crossing the hall to his office in the Salon Doré, also on the Elys...
Loyal Lady. In its brief, parochial career, Agence Europe has won itself a reputation for feats of espionage that would do credit to the CIA or Britain's M15. Headed since its foundation by grey-haired Emanuele Gazzo, onetime Genoa bureau chief for Italy's Ansa News Agency, Agence Europe has been unwrapping secrets almost from birth. Far ahead of official release, it reported on the original formation of the Common Market and Euratom, the Common Market countries' joint nuclear-development agency...
...Angeles. The children-they give you such a sendoff-you hate to sneak back tarred and feathered." A longtime TV writer, Long joshes about his labor pains with Never Too Late: "Eight weeks to write, six years to retype." He got the idea for the play watching "a pretty, grey-haired woman walking down Wilshire Boulevard. She had the only happy face in sight, and was obviously pregnant. I wondered what happened when she first told her husband, what happened when her marriageable children heard of it." What happens in Never Too Late is that Maureen O'Sullivan...
...recommended that buyers interested in doorstops consider the color scheme of the room which contains the door to be stopped. Samples: SHAKESPEARE: TEN GREAT PLAYS (502 pp.; Golden Press; $12.95) has a pinkish grey dust jacket, suitable for pinkish grey rooms. Why, however, print only ten of Shakespeare's plays? And why lard them out with puerile illustrations? The answer, possibly, is so that the publisher can charge $12.95 for literature in the public domain...