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Gabor struck a delicately balanced pose in imitation of another famous singer and actress: Jane Avril, favorite model of French Artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Then she left for Paris to play the part of the poster model in a new movie, Moulin Rouge, the life story of Lautrec...
...years between World Wars I and II European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor; of a heart attack; in Saint-Pierre-d'Autils, France. Throughout the Occupation he stayed in France, published The Myth of Liberty, an attack on the democracies, and won French citizenship from Vichyite Marshal Henri Pétain. In 1944, after the Normandy landing, he was arrested but subsequently released by Free French forces...
...even to the losers, the advantages of playing in the EPU game far outweighed the drawbacks of going it alone. Last week 18 stockholder nations held a solemn board meeting in the Château de la Muette, onetime Paris home of Baron Henri de Rothschild. They decided unanimously that, win or lose, the game must go on, at least for another year. But medievalism in the European economy was proving abominably hard...
Napoleon at St. Helena, by General Henri-Gatien Bertrand. A vivid account of Napoleon's last months, from the journals of his grand marshal (TIME...
Frank Perls, who owns an art gallery in Beverly Hills, got a telephone call from U.S. Customs. It was about three charity-ball posters by France's famed Henri Matisse that Perls was importing for a show at his gallery. They were "not art," said the Customs man, and would therefore be subject to duty. Perls said the posters were art, but the Customs man stood firm. "He told me," said Perls, "that a child could have done the posters...