Word: bals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Le Diable, Radiguet began to study the most famous of the French courtly novels, The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette (TIME, May 28, 1951), and was inspired to write Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel. "A chaste love story"-he called it-"as shocking as the least chaste...
...name is E. E. (for Edward Estlin) Cummings, and he is probably America's most respected lyric poet, though his ver bal and typographical high jinks have often rattled critics as well as typesetters...
...daily court life. But everything was written in a private shorthand of hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp...
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 24, only child of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, and Cristóbal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascarán, Marques de Villaverde, 29; their first child, a daughter. Name: Carmen. Weight...
Says Picabia, who has been concentrating on dots in his Paris studio since last fall: "Ideas are like shirts. They get dirty after a while and then you have to change them." Toward serious art, he was as irreverent as ever: "I'd rather go to the Bal Tabarin than visit an art gallery. I'd rather have a seat in the Comedie-Fran-gaise than a seat in the Academe des Beaux-Arts...