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...absolutely no suspicion," said Breuer, "not the way they fooled around, laughing themselves silly while they took the photographs." Next, Munich police rounded up three youths who claimed that they had been talked into posing as a joke. Back in Paris, Paris Match Reporter Jean Taousson and Editor André Lacaze casually admitted the hoax. "The photos may imply stronger political ideas than those people really hold," Taousson explained lamely. "But in the article we did not say they were politically dangerous. We said they were nostalgic for Nazism, and in fact they...
...graduate, as director-general. At Harvard he distinguished himself by bombing the Baker Library with empty beer cans as he flew over it in his old Fairchild. Harvard grounded him but graduated him too ('50), and the next year he had a chance to apply his learning when André Dubonnet, of the company that produces Dubonnet and Cinzano apéritifs in France, asked him to take over its musty little Préfontaines division at $210 monthly. "I was lucky," says Henrion. "I came into an antiquated business and just applied the book from Harvard...
PROMETHEUS: THE LIFE OF BALZAC by AndréMaurois. 573 pages. Harper...
French film officials had the answer: they asked her to be chief judge of the Cannes Festival. "I hesitated at first," recalled Sophia. "It wouldn't be easy running a group of well-known writers and thinkers like Marcel Achard, André Maurois, Marcel Pagnol and Peter Ustinov. But then I said to myself, 'Why not be a judge instead of an actress for once? After all, I do know something about the movies, don't I?' So I said...
This book, though at times tedious, heaps a hillock of fresh laurels on Balzac's grave. André Maurois, an old hand at literary biographies (Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Dumas, Hugo, Proust), disavows that intention. "This is a life of Balzac, not a critical study," he says in a foreword and, having passed his 80th year, announces that it is the last biography he will write. Nevertheless, Prometheus is strewn with the kind of judgments that a disciple makes at the feet of the master: "A super-novelist," "the greatest novelist of the century." Balzac's very faults become...