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For grouchy skeptics who asked whether the machine age had given the human race anything except autos and creeping concrete, air conditioning and smog. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had an impassioned answer. Man's great new gift was the earth, seen from the air. "Saint-Ex" despised...
Like other Sinclair novels, Theirs Be the Guilt has its Lanny Budd, i.e., a character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on...
At least seven leagues removed from the days when he followed his famed father in dueling along balustrades and skewering villains behind the arras, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., now a London boulevardier, last week bagged a pride of social lions. The catch at Fairbanks' coming-out party for his...
Postwar Politics: Elected mayor of Arras and Deputy for Department Pas-de-Calais in 1945; still holds both jobs. Challenged Socialist Party leadership because it had "lost touch with militants"; succeeded to secretary-generalship, won complete control in 1946; served as minister without portfolio under Premier Leéon Blum...
Personality: No socialite, prefers to dine alone in kitchen of his one-bedroom Paris apartment near Bois de Boulogne; still drives black Citroen which he has had since 1945; weekending in Arras he plays billiards or belotte with old friends in favorite bistro. Madame Mollet keeps tabs on his mayoral...