Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon he was writing reviews for the Paris monthly, Cahiers du Cinéma, the Parisian equivalent of Schwab's Drugstore in Hollywood, a place where young hopefuls loiter. In the late '50s, every young French director who had directed nothing wrote for Cahiers. One by one, they emerged - Claude Chabrol with The Cousins, François Truffaut with The 400 Blows. Only Jean-Luc Godard seemed to stay behind, and one day he disappeared with the Cahiers' petty cash. Chabrol and Truffaut wondered if Godard was trying to finance a film. They came...
...SPLIT was authorized for common stock of Christiana Securities Co., the holding company controlled by the Du Ponts. Present price: around $15,800. Number of shares authorized will go from 150,000 to 12 million. Christiana's principal holdings: 27% of Du Pont, which in turn owns 22% of General Motors...
Something About a Soldier. Branwell's sad saga ought to have made a more compelling story than Novelist Daphne Du Maurier has made of it. She is too busy justifying Branwell to do psychological justice to his twisted life. As a boy, Branwell was startlingly precocious. At eight, he could commit a page to memory on a single reading, repeat a lesson verbatim, store away names, dates, and places with faultless recall. Ambidextrous, he could write two letters at once. His proud, high-strung curate father had been left a widower with six small children, five of them girls...
...INFERNAL WORLD OF BRANWELL BRONTË(336 pp.)-Daphne Du Maurier -Doubleday...
...CONCERT. The fifth in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's yearly forays into Cambridge. The program is scheduled to include Darius Milhaud's La Creation du monde, Schumann's Violin Concerto in d (soloist: Henryk Szeryng), and Cesar Franck's Symphony in d. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Tickets at Symphony Hall, or at the door...