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...wrote the first of "more than 60" detective novels that have made him the most famous of French whodunists. In his 30s he began to write an occasional straight novel (The Snow Is Black, The Bells of Bicêtre), and he wrote them with such fierce finesse that André Gide pronounced him "perhaps the greatest and most truly novelistic novelist in French literature today...
...cheered Beatle George Harrison a while ago, "he's the daddy of us all!" Someone finally got around to asking the proud daddy-o himself about it when he arrived in London on an English concert tour. "Daddy of them?" winced Classical Guitarist Andrés Segovia, 71. "The Beatles are very nice young men, no doubt, but their music is horrible. The electric guitar is an abomination. Who ever has heard of an electric violin? Or, for that matter, an electric singer...
...Figaro said privately. "On est des cocus." (We've been cuckolded.) As for the Louvre's curators, they protested that they had merely accepted the show from Bordeaux, where it was organized by the Gaullist mayor, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, with the blessings of Culture Minister André Malraux. However, one curator admitted: "The first thing I did when I noticed-uh-certain things, was rewrite the catalogue...
...André Lwoff, 63, French-born but of Russian-Polish extraction, has spent all his life at the Pasteur, since 1959 has also been professor of microbiology at the Sorbonne...
Last week a young American scientist began treatment at a Brussels hospital with full confidence that his severe radiation burns could be cured. What had happened to change the outlook so hopefully was a chance discovery made by Belgium's Dr. André Massart...