Word: felicien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HEART FLIGHTS (191 pp.)-Felicien Marceau-Abelard-Schuman...
This is the simple outline of Novelist-Playwright Felicien Marceau's new book, but it is the portraits within, not the frame without, that make it a sparkling display of French tragicomedy. An irresistible pair are stern father de Gau-grand, a half-mad patrician whose "broad back [extends] like the Great Wall of China," and his wife, who wears newspapers (for warmth) throughout the winter and sits down to all meals in hat and overcoat. Daughter Denise, raised in this nutty household, is more than a bit weak in the head, but far from weak in will...
...sold illicit liquor to passing trappers. Then, with little fanfare, Campbell Chibougamau Mines Ltd. in 1952 sewed up a U.S. Government contract for its output, the next year started to sink a shaft. Last year it went into production, hauling concentrates laboriously by truck to the railroad at St. Felicien, 125 miles to the southeast. With a world shortage driving copper prices towards records (last week's U.S. price: about 40? a lb.), other companies holding long-neglected Chibougamau claims decided to have a closer look...
Late for Dinner. In Los Angeles, seeking a divorce, Mrs. Honor Landier testified that her husband Felicien called from the office one night in 1943, told her he would be working late, has not yet come home...