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...days later the villagers of Gissac, in Aveyron,noticed the arrival of a strange new doctor and his wife at the small local Catholic hospital. The priests seemed to treat Dr. André Viaud, a spent-looking retired practitioner wearing the beginnings of a scraggly beard, with unusual respect. When a man stopped him on a walk and asked him to look at some peculiar red splotches on his daughter's face, Dr. Viaud failed to oblige. Instead, he hurried back to the hospital and sent one of the other doctors. He even avoided a chat with...
...Died. André Gide, 81, man of letters; in Paris. Gide published his first book (a journal) at 21, waited long for recognition, longer for an audience, by the end had published 50-odd books: novels (The Immoralist, The Counterfeiters); criticism (Dostoevsky, Chopin); nonfiction ranging from a defense of the U.S.S.R. to an attack on it; and his lifelong Journals. In the '40s he finally won international recognition as one of the century's major writers; the Nobel Prize in 1947 made it official. He was "compelled," he said, to write about his own inner conflicts, "which otherwise...
...Inter-American Affairs, is off on another quick swing around his circuit. In a 20-day South American tour, he will pay an official visit to Brazil's new Foreign Minister Joāo Neves da Fontoura, represent the U.S. at the inauguration of Uruguay's President Andrés Martinez Trueba, attend the Pan American Olympic games at Buenos Aires, address the U.N. Economic and Social conferences at Santiago, and pay a courtesy call in Lima...
Like many a bewildered layman, Paris Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 65, often fails to appreciate the strange distortions of his more abstract contemporaries. On the front page of Paris' Figaro Littéraire, he tells why: "I have never seen anything in geometric form except a means . . . to establish the architecture of a picture . . . The abstract painter is to the art of the great masters what military maneuvers . . . are to the real art of warfare...
...Paris, Littérateur André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...