Word: alain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decade, James Laughlin IV, rebellious great-grandson of the co-founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel, has subsidized a publishing house (New Directions) that has scorned the usual commercial limitations of the U.S. book business. Ready to face financial losses, Laughlin has put out cheap reprints of modern classics (e.g., Alain-Fournier's The Wanderer), little-known but excellent European books and works by young American writers which no other publisher would take a chance...
...Devil's Envoys (Paulvé; Superfilm), which is based on the medieval romance Les Visiteurs du Soir, is a French film about a minstrel (Alain Cuny) and his mistress (Arletty) who travels disguised as his brother. One evening they turn up among the entertainers at a small French chateau. These unusually talented musicians are capable of magic, as well as music; they are emissaries of the Devil (Jules Berry). Their business in the world is to seduce immortal souls through the transient flesh...
...Married. Alain Darlan, 32, son of Vichy's Admiral Vice Premier Darlan (assassinated in 1942), who at the invitation of President Roosevelt came to the U.S. in 1943 to get treatment for polio; and Mrs. Phyllis Kellum, 37, Warm Springs Foundation physiotherapist; both for the second time; in Warm Springs...
Married. Elisabeth de Gaulle, 21, pretty, trained-nurse daughter of French President Charles de Gaulle; and Commandant (Major) Alain de Boissieu, 31; in Paris. Son-in-law De Boissieu, le grand Charlie's military aide, escaped from a German prison camp in 1940, campaigned in Africa and Normandy...
Admiral Jean-Francois Dorian's 61-year-old widow, Berthe, still in & around Warm Springs, Ga., with partly paralyzed son Alain, bought slippers for a gift, tried them on, promptly slipped, crashed, broke her elbow...