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...years that André Stil, 31, a onetime schoolteacher, has been editing France's top Communist daily L'Humanité, he has proved his qualifications for the job. This year he won a Stalin Prize for the first volume of his novel Le Premier Choc (The First Blow), glorifying French stevedores who end up sabotaging U.S. military shipments to France under the Atlantic Pact. Last week Editor Stil was doing even better work for the party. On the eve of General Ridgway's arrival in Paris to take over NATO's command, he proclaimed mass demonstrations...
...ANDRÉ GIDE, French novelist who died last year at 81, author of The Counterfeiters, Les Caves du Vatican, Theseus, etc., one of the topflight literary figures of the 20th century. The official decree banning Gide's work did not give a reason, but the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano offered an interpretation: "He lived as a nonChristian, even as a deliberate antiChristian. The taste for profanity . . . was carried by him to blasphemy . . . His art had a feeling of his lasciviousness . . . The work of Gide from beginning to end is all orchestrated on a tone of ambiguous...
Newspapers the world over picked up the story* and denials came from everybody from Fechteler himself to Churchill. But Le Monde stuck to its story. Le Monde's Editor-in-Chief André Chēnebenoit said that British intelligence had intercepted the "document" early this year, and that Le Monde had bought it from Jacques Bloch-Morhange, who runs his own private newsletter in Paris. Despite this dubious source, Editor Chēnebenoit and Le Monde Director Hubert Beuve-Méry ordered the letter printed without consulting the paper's other editors. Said Chēnebenoit...
...music lovers queued up the first day. Some well-known intellectuals held conspicuously aloof. Existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir ("We are not that anti-Communist") turned down bids to speak. But plenty of other certified intellectuals accepted, e.g., Britain's Stephen Spender, France's André Malraux, Italy's Ignazio Silone...
...guidebook was started at the turn of the century by Edouard and André Michelin, the bearded brothers who invented the first removable bicycle tire and are credited with the introduction of the pneumatic auto tire. With the advent of the horseless carriage, André Michelin figured that a reliable guidebook would give both tourism and the tire business a boost. He was right. Today the Michelin Tire Co., still family-owned, is one of the biggest in the world. Worth some $57 million, it has plants in France, Italy, Britain, Belgium, Spain and Argentina. Michelin loses about...