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...Bre Nsem Ase-He who is able to han dle unmanageable events...
Died. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 70, Russian poet-novelist, an apolitical Christian humanist whose 1958 Nobel Prize made him an unwitting cold war cause célèbre; of cancer: in Peredelkino, Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Since Detroit's two other papers ran similar stories, their concerted defiance promptly blew up into a national journalistic cause célèbre. Never before had the loftily independent News, John S. Knight's crusading Free Press (circ. 498,912), and Hearst's scrappy but third-ranking Times (circ. 385,908) shown such editorial solidarity. Encouragement flowed in from all over, even from the bench: "The court's business is the public business," said Federal District Judge Arthur F. Lederle, who, convalescing in a Detroit hospital, had taken no part in the suppression order...
With considerable pride but without great fanfare, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last month announced the acquisition of the famed Belgian Merode triptych. The Annunciation. By last week the Met's purchase of the altarpiece had become an international cause célébre. Said a resolution signed by 22 of Belgium's top museum directors and art teachers: "Often in the course of its history Belgium has had to witness, powerless, the destruction or pillage of its artistic patrimony. Once more, and this time without being able to cite the accident...
...trial for trying to remove them. His wife rushed back to France, succeeded in getting an impressive list of important writers to protest his arrest. His trial was dropped, and the saturnine young man returned to France as the dashing hero of a cause célèbre. The Malraux legend was launched, and Malraux was well pleased. "A break in the established order is never the work of chance," he declared. "It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account...