Word: andr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That's the way Radio Paris started its midnight program. The long-haired doubletalk-Dada love poetry and surrealist verse by Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon-went on for 15 minutes...
...shilling, pocket-sized monthly attracted such leading talents as J. B. Priestley, W. H. Auden, André Gide, T. S, Eliot, E. M. Forster, Stephen Spender. Between their bylines he sandwiched pieces (bought for a few pounds apiece) by hopeful unknowns...
...they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
...André Siegfried, Frenchman-of-letters whose America Comes of Age sold nicely in the late '203, at a lecture in Paris announced yet again that the U.S. was coming of age. He also noted, as he had before the depression, "an atmosphere of prosperity...
...André Maurois, best-selling litterateur (Ariel, Byron, The Art of Living), wartime French refugee in Manhattan, and more popular abroad than in France, prepared to move west, to teach at Kansas City U. Subject: European novelists...