Word: benoit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Jean Benoit-Levy, 71, French producer of some 400 documentary films, the best of them (La Maternelle, Ballerina) luminous glimpses of a tender world of uncoached children in their ordinary surroundings; in Paris...
Election to the French Academy is for eternity and its 36 distinguished members are known as the "Immortals." Last week the Immortals were stunned when 72-year-old Novelist Pierre Benoit, an Academy member since 1931, asked to resign. The Academy refused. Said Nobel Prize Author Francois Mauriac: "One does not resign from the Academy. One is immortal for eternity." Benoit, touched by the Academy's refusal but unpersuaded, replied: "I will never again set foot in the Academy. It would really be tactless of me." Benoit had supported the unsuccessful Academy candidacy of Paul Morand, a novelist rejected...
KENNETH R. BENOIT Detroit...
Snow-White. Benoit and Leroy named their new ducks "Blanche-neige" (snow-white) and touched off a France-wide sensation by telling about them. The French press has been full of praise, speculation and wonderment, not unmixed with uneasiness. Many were the suggestions for treating infant humans with human DNA. Neither of the partners has any such intention. "It is inadmissible," says Professor Benoit, "to talk about experimenting on men at this time. We are only at the very beginning." Father Leroy sounds somewhat worried, but he finds refuge in the reasoning used by the makers of the first atomic...
French scientists have not yet agreed about the validity of duck metamorphosis. To clinch the proof, Professor Benoit and Father Leroy are injecting 16 more ducklings with DNA. Their Blanche-neige ducks laid 27 eggs, which have now hatched. When they grow up, the world will learn whether DNA-induced changes can be transmitted to the second generation...