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Since surrealism was founded in 1924 by the French philosopher and poet of the subconscious, Andre Breton, it has become a hotly defended cult, of which Poet Breton has become a sort of political boss. Despite superficial appearances, surrealism had certain rather logical foundations. Fearing that the art of photography would some day beat all realistic art at its own game, Breton and a band of modern painters decided to find a field of painting where the camera could not go. The subconscious world of dreams was obviously inviolable. The researches of Sigmund Freud suggested that dream symbols, were often...
...tiny flotilla moved in battle line toward the still-sleeping village of St. Pierre, a lone bristle-bearded Breton sailor ran down to the quai to greet it, his wooden sabots clattering and slipping on the icy streets. In the still morning air the whole harbor could hear him bilingually swearing: "Pétain, le sacre bleu cochon, le old goat!" . . . With trembling hands he lashed the first corvette line to a bollard. "Vive De Gaulle," he shouted. "At last I can say it. Vive De Gaulle...
...While Premier Hepburnwas fulminating about Canadian defense strikes, two of the largest ones were drawing to a close. This week 4,000 workers of the striking McKinnon Industries autoparts plant at St. Catharine's, Ont. returned to their jobs; 700 coal miners on Cape Breton Island voted to end the slowdown that had cut their production 40% (TIME, Sept...
MAIGRET KEEPS A RENDEZVOUS-Georges Simenon-Harcourt ($2). Two first-class exploits of phlegmatic French Detective Maigret: One is the case of a Breton sea captain, slain after a frenzied voyage, which Maigret closes on an extra-legal note; the other a rural tragedy, involving the death of an elderly countess by induced shock. Translation not so smooth as earlier Simenon but both tales have brilliant workmanship...
...Admiral Robert Carlisle Giffen, 55, is the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) buckarooly commander of the Fleet's one division of four heavy cruisers. Last though he is in battle succession, "Ike" Giffen thus has a command second only in importance to that of Admirals King and Le Breton...