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Vienna Holiday (Michel Legrand and his orchestra; Columbia LP). The eerie shimmer of the opening bars sounds like trance music in the movies, gives a hint of the nightmare to follow: tricky "improvements" on Strauss waltzes and other Viennese music. French Conductor Legrand painfully paralyzes the originals' lilting three-quarter time till the music sounds every bit as insipid as French popular music itself. A major atrocity that should cause Vienna to break diplomatic relations with Paris...
...Casablanca, violence begets violence. Crowds of young Europeans stormed through the streets, smashing native shops, besieging the offices of the liberal French-owned newspaper Maroc-Presse, tearing down Moroccan flags. At midnight, a mob smashed into the apartment of Lawyer Jean-Charles Legrand, a French lawyer who has defended Moroccan terrorists in court. Legrand was waiting for them, revolver in hand. For an hour he held them off, killing one young attacker and wounding two others...
...recorded spiels were the idea of Marcel LeGrand, director-general of the Societé Bénédictine of Fécamp, manufacturers of Benedictine liqueur. He installed a similar system in his distillery last year for the benefit of tourists, later tried it in the company's Fécamp museum. Some of the Galerie Royale's guides were pretty sad about the future-if this was it. Said one oldtimer: "At first, it was awful listening to an invisible man do my job. But you can't stand in the way of progress...
...this respect Legrand started even with U.S. Artist Guy Rowe, who used faces he glimpsed on trains, planes and in Manhattan cafeterias as starting points for Biblical portraits (TIME...
...Legrand, 56, does not seem the sort of man to drift about the desert on a camel. Dapper and urbane, he sports a neatly clipped little mustache and a lavender-scented breast-pocket handkerchief, confesses an abiding love for good Parisian food and old brandy. But he loves Morocco more and, except for annual business trips to Paris, plans to stay there. "There are two kinds of time," he explains, "European and African. In Europe you count time by the year; in Africa you count it by thousands of years. The land and the people of Morocco are primitive...