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France may have changed in ten years but not the French. Not, at least, in the Rue de la Huchette, a short, crowded Left Bank street that runs parallel to the Seine. Peripatetic Novelist Elliot Paul ought to know. He lived there, off & on, for 18 years before the war, came back to the U.S. and wrote his bestselling The Last Time I Saw Paris (TIME, April...
...teeming streets of Saigon are magically emptied by the abrupt rain squalls. At one minute the Rue Catinat,* the city's main street, is 'busy as usual. Stores named in French and Annamite peddle silks and souvenirs, white-topped Vietnamese police amble along, Foreign Legionnaires crowd sidewalk cafes, civilians in shorts sip cafe au lait in front of the fashionable bar of La Pagode. Women, slim and petite, add color with their cai-at (a vivid silk gown split at the hips, worn over silk pajamas...
...months after the French National Assembly repealed the Royal Family Exile Law, the Comte de Paris, 42, pretender to the nonexistent throne of France, saw his beloved Paris for the first time in 25 years. As he motored up to Royalist headquarters on the Rue de Constantine, a small, stouthearted band of the faithful cried: "Vive le roi!" Said the Comte: "I am happier than it is possible...
...shuttles between two studios, a small one in Paris' Rue de Téhéran and a big one in Barcelona. At week's end he dashed back to Spain to continue work on an 18-by-17-ft. mural for Harvard University's new graduate center. The mural, he says hopefully, "will enable me to establish close contact with the students, the young men of tomorrow. It is better to influence the young generation than to try to convert stubborn...
...maintain this Declaration," he said in 1776. "Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which," added John very sensibly, "I trust in God We shall...