Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death Confirmed. George Sessions Perry, 46, towering (6 ft. 5 in.), Texas-born National Book Award-winning novelist (for Hold Autumn in Your Hand, in 1941), who covered the North African campaign in World War II for The New Yorker, wrote 145 stories and articles for the Saturday Evening Post (including many of the "Cities of America" series and a description of his fight against crippling rheumatoid arthritis); when his unclad body was found in a tidal stream near his home, two months after he disappeared (police theorized that he drowned himself; he had told friends that he heard voices...
...beautiful actress alive. Next to her, I found Line Noro's performance in the difficult role of Amelie most telling. If you arrive on time, you will also see the second of the Brattle's weekly installments of Vivaldi. They are fine travelogues, and this week's season is Autumn...
Trouble in the Ranks. By autumn there was outright rebellion in the ranks of his once dedicated Deputies. Four refused to hand over their monthly paychecks to Poujade. Another four resigned outright. His chief legislative lieutenant, ex-Paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, vol unteered for service in Algeria. When Poujade refused to back France's assault on Suez, Le Pen threatened to return when his service was over and rally 19 other dissatisfied Poujadists into a new party. Poujade needed a triumph if he was to keep the leadership of his tattered forces...
...Albright, 21, once a polio victim, now Olympic figure-skating champion (first U.S. woman to win that laurel), announced her withdrawal from rink competition. After only three years as a brilliant premed student at Radcliffe college, Skater Albright has been accepted by Harvard Medical School, will enter it this autumn, aims to go into some branch of children's medicine...
...Such is the man who may hold the balance of power after next autumn's elections. Will his Free Democrats deal with the Socialists or the Christian Democrats? Presumably the Christian Democrats would have to retire Adenauer before Maier would sign with them. The Socialists would have to subdue their economic radicalism to get his support. Which way he will lean he will not say. Said Reinhold Maier last week: "One says of the hunter that he doesn't always tell the truth after the hunt. Of the politician one says that he doesn't always tell...