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...local headquarters of the collaborators. Caught staring at the racy sports cars parked outside, listening to the sounds of fashionable music and unaware of the curfew, Lucien is grabbed from behind by a guard and taken for questioning as a spy. Inside, an unlikely group of outcasts--a playboy aristocrat, a cycling champion past his prime, a colonial black, a police inspector dismissed by Leon Blum's Popular Front before the war--reigns over the hotel in sybaritic decadence. Downstairs is all dancing and champagne; only once in a while does anyone go upstairs for "business"--torture and interrogation...
Died. André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 90, well-known French painter and printmaker; of bronchitis; in Paris. Inspired by Corot and Courbet, the young aristocrat shunned the early 1900s revolutionary experiments of his Fauvist and Cubist Parisian friends and bought a house in the south of France, where he painted gentle, Cézannesque still lifes and landscapes glimmering with the unique southern light. Retaining and refining his style throughout his lifetime, Segonzac won and kept the respect of artists, critics and collectors...
...four televised debates with Kennedy damaged Nixon more. Particularly in the first confrontation, Nixon appeared tired, edgy and stiff; his makeup was a disaster. Overall, the debates did much to project the image of Kennedy as a smooth, graceful aristocrat with the easy manners of wealth and good schooling. In contrast, Nixon suggested a sweaty sense of social inferiority. Nixon had much in his favor-eight years of national, highly visible experience; Kennedy was a Catholic, very young, a rich man's son. The election was a near thing. Kennedy won by only 113,000 votes...
Died. Baldur von Schirach, 67, arrogant, monomaniacal leader of Hitler's youth movement in the 1930s; in Krov, West Germany. Son of a German aristocrat and an American mother, Von Schirach declared that "the lives of all German youths belong solely to Adolf Hitler," and undertook to train his charges ("physically, spiritually and morally") to follow the Führer unquestioningly. After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder...
...home with him one night, said, "Pick yourself a bedroom," and welcomed her simply as a friend. Now she lives next door, and has run Jack's household through the romances with Mimi, Michelle and Anjelica. "Jack once said to me, 'Helena, look, I have very aristocratic feet.' So I say of him he has the feet of an aristocrat and the body of a peasant. He has traveled with kings and knaves, and sees no difference between them...