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French Sculptor Henri Laurens was a self-effacing man who ordinarily preferred to let his articulate friends do the talking. But one night in 1930, as Art Dealer D. H. Kahnweiler recalls it, the conversation drifted around to the beauty of Marlene Dietrich. One of the group suggested that Marlene did not have beautiful thighs. "Too thick," he concluded. With a vehemence that shocked his friends, the mild-mannered Laurens leaped to Marlene's defense...
...influential Le Monde, Editor Hubert Beuve-Mery summed up De Gaulle's behavior, as "the shipwreck of old age"-the same phrase that the general himself in his War Memoirs applied to the late collaborator Henri Philippe Petain. "One can certainly understand and share the trouble and the anguish of those faithful to the general. But onto what new rocks will they agree to run a ship of state which they seem to forget that they, too, are responsible...
...proponents of the view that man is perfectible, he extends small comfort. Whatever man is today, Lévi-Strauss insists, man already was. Among the more remarkable parallels he notes is the homology between the ideas of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and those of an unnamed Dakota Indian sage. "Everything as it moves," Lévi-Strauss quotes the Indian, "now and then, here and there, makes stops. So the god has stopped. The sun, the moon, the stars, the winds, the trees are all where he has stopped." And from Bergson: "A great current of creative energy...
...Padlocks. This remarkable museum (see color opposite) houses 12,000 examples of the smithy's cunning, assembled by a minor Parisian nobleman named Henri Le Secq des Tournelles and his father Jerome Le Secq des Tournelles, between 1870 and 1921. Henri gave his collection to the city of Rouen a year before his death when the city fathers offered to house it in the 15th century Church of St. Laurent, which had been secularized and abandoned during the Revolution. To the younger Des Tournelles, iron collecting was a kind of madness. His wife divorced him over it, his fortune...
Married. Princess Margrethe of Denmark, 27, eldest daughter of Denmark's King Frederik IX and heir to the throne; and Count Henri de Monpezat, 32, handsome French diplomat; in a royalty-studded ceremony in Copenhagen's ancient Holmens Church...