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...Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the hand of Simone de Beauvoir while you had been left at the post in the Fifth at Aqueduct. No, I think it is better just to write...
...plug the magazine. With his Philadelphia Inquirer, pulps (Official Detective Stories and Gags) and a string of daily racing forms, he was too busy to do the job himself, but Alice Thompson seemed just the hand to entrust it to. To fill her old spot he snagged pretty, blonde Andrée Vilas, 34, once editor of Junior Bazaar, then managing editor of Glamour, and currently managing editor of Charm...
...situation of the writer in various epochs. Written with Sartre's characteristic energy and the faint overtones of sounder sense that he has acquired since World War II and the French resistance, it places his own writing in the same class with the work of André Malraux and Antoine de St. Exupéry-Frenchmen of action, compelled to do their work in a time of disintegrating values when any act had to be its own justification. Thus he seems to write an apologia for such books as Nausea as having been conditioned by a certain time...
Snort from Segovia. The lute wasn't easy to learn. Plenty of music has been written for the lute (more, Suzanne believes, than for the harpsichord), but she found it written in a complicated notation called "tablature." The instrument itself was a little complicated too. Famed Guitarist Andrés Segovia visited Suzanne last year, took one look at her lute and snorted, "Too many strings" (her lute has 19, Segovia's guitar only...
...American's 152 land planes (the flying boats have been retired) fly 61,038 route miles. The line's safety record is one of the best, thanks in great part to Vice President André Priester, 57, a brilliant engineer who for 22 years has been in charge of Pan Am's planes, maintenance, traffic guides, etc., and is fondly called "our Steinmetz...