Word: et
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last September he founded Paix et Liberté (Peace and Freedom), an organization dedicated to the single task of fighting Communist lies. Said David: "All Frenchmen know that for the last four years their country has been submitted to a gigantic offensive designated to pave the way for their conquest and enslavement. Frenchmen know that all means are used . . . and first of all the lie ... This is what we are here to expose...
From Slingshot . . . French Communists took the Goliath position, registered tolerant amusement at David's slingshot declaration of total psychological war on Communism. They were less amused one evening recently when a surprise Paix et Liberté broadcast came over the state-run radio at 8 p.m., France's peak listening hour. Hundreds of thousands of listeners heard David give French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez one of the roughest dressings-down that he had ever suffered. Paix et Liberté's free time on the air had been arranged by Premier René Pleven...
While the Communists were still muttering over the implications of this, David hit them again, out of his knowledge that Moscow had sent Professor Davidenkov, Russian heart specialist, to attend ailing Maurice Thorez. Next morning every registered doctor in Paris received a Paix et Liberté pamphlet. "A snub to the medical profession!" cried the tract. "Are French doctors unworthy or inefficient?" Yelped the Communist press: "Neo-Goebbelism . . . David is a Wall Street pawn...
Goetz's Van Gogh, entitled Sluay by Candlelight (TIME, June 6, 1949 et seq.), had been bitterly debated by top art experts of both the U.S. and Europe. Some declared it was genuine, others were convinced that it was forged. A jury of specialists appointed by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum reported that the picture was suspiciously "strident in color, weak in drawing and uncertain in the modeling of the head" (TIME...
...slices of Gary's pudding that have been served in the U.S. since 1936, the best have been his trilogy novels, Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948 et seq.). In these books Gary shows himself a master of the novelist's true business: creating characters who stick in the memory. No one who has once met that latter-day Moll Flanders, Sara Monday, and that loudmouthed old horsethief and painter, Gulley Jimson, is likely to forget them...