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...LIFE OF GEORGE SAND (482 pp.)-André Maurois-Harper...
...back to work, the biggest union of them all, the Communist-led C.G.T., suddenly called off its effort to prolong the strike that had paralyzed France for three weeks. Two hours later, the gate of gloomy Fresnes Prison outside Paris opened, and out walked five top French Communists (including André Stil, managing editor of L'Humanité). They had been held for months awaiting trial on charges of conspiring against France's military security; now, without new evidence or new arguments, they were set free...
Spanish Concert Guitarist Andrés Segovia, last reported in a Madrid hospital for a detached-retina operation (TIME, Aug. 3), was up and about with exciting news: "My operation was completely successful, thank God, thanks to the skill of the doctors and thanks to my 'good-natured nature...
...Billy Rose returns to producing with a brace of French plays: the musical, Orpheus in the Underworld, based on Jacques Offenbach's score and with a new book by Ben Hecht (see Music) ; and a dramatization of André Gide's The Immoralist, starring Geraldine Page and directed by Herman Shumlin. Other French entries: The Strong Are Lonely, with Victor Francen and Margaret Webster; and a Louis Kronenberger adaptation of Jean Anouilh's bitter Colombe, a starring vehicle for talented Julie Harris...
Died. General André Georges Corap 75, whose French Ninth Army was annihilated in the decisive 1940 German breakthrough near Sedan; at Fontainebleau, near Paris...