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...ship is sinking," Jean Cocteau mourned last week when he was told of Edith Piaf's death. It was a typically melodramatic lament for the waning of a French world that began with cubism and ended, more or less, with existentialism. Several hours later, Cocteau himself died of a heart attack at the age of 74. In one day France had lost both an esthetic arbiter of its intellect and a guardian-or at least a mascot -of its heart...
Singing to Live. Hollow-cheeked and not quite five feet tall, Edith Piaf looked the part. She was born in wretchedness and squalor in a Paris working-class district, was abandoned by her mother, and lived in a brothel run by her grandmother. A childhood disease blinded her for four years, and at 16 she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, who died in infancy. Heartbroken, she began singing outside sidewalk cafés, lived on the coins tossed at her feet...
...even in success, la vie en rose eluded Edith Piaf. Her greatest love, Boxer Marcel Cerdan, was killed in a plane crash in 1949, and her first marriage ended in divorce. Four separate automobile accidents all but crushed her frail body, and she was racked with ulcers, jaundice, arthritis, and cirrhosis of the liver. She took to drugs and young men, married her second husband, Hairdresser Théo Sarapo, 25, only last year, when she was 46. Each misfortune marred her voice but only seemed to give new poignancy to her artistry. Despite doctors' warnings, the nearly crippled...
...Died. Edith Piaf, 47, France's premiere chanteuse and petite (4 ft. 10 in., 90 lbs.) "sparrow of the streets"; of a hemorrhage of the spleen; in Paris (see THE WORLD...
...case of Edith Helm has proved that a kidney transplanted to an unnatural location can do double duty and also withstand the strains of repeated pregnancies. As the Brigham team headed by Surgeon Joseph Murray reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, this is "gratifying." Beyond the doctors' Yankee reserve, though, is the knowledge that no tougher test of their technique could be devised...