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...Sartre meant choosing Marxism. "Going downstairs" is a perfect symbol for the acceptance of political participation by so many of Sartre's other characters, and suicide always follows their conversion as it does Frantz's. Yet Sartre still clings to both philosophies. For Frantz in the end escapes mauvaise-foi, his refusal to accept the reality of his past, and his last words are existentialist in tone: "I have been! I ... took my century on my shoulders and said: I am responsible...
...President of France was forced to resign because his son-in-law was selling Legion appointments foi $3,000 apiece. One Premier of the Third Republic, Pierre-Maurice Rou-vier, casually made his mistress' husband a Legionnaire because "of the special services rendered to me by his wife." Once when he was having bad luck fishing, legend has it, Author Henri Murger (La Vie de Boheme) baited his hook with his scarlet ribbon and said: "Now they are sure to bite. This is something everyone likes...
...fine foi". Vice President Johnson to make friends for himself and the U.S. in his travels, but isn't entertaining a camel driver going a little...
...news is also spread by talks to security-analyst luncheon clubs, which have sprung up all over the U.S. While they provide a valuable forum for businessmen to discuss the prospects and progress of their companies, they also provide a natural springboard foi advance rumors such as the Lionel-Von Braun story last month. Wall Streeters object to confidential briefings in advance for friendly analysts; stockholders might well object when executives serve their news at lunches instead of releasing it generally...
Forbes arranged to rent a room foi Willie from a friend, Mrs. David Goosby, whose five-room Harlem apartment is little more than a Willie Mays throw from the Polo Grounds. Mrs. Goosby treats Willie a little like a son, occasionally gives him a motherly talk "about taking care of himself." "Not that he needs it often," says Mrs. Goosby. "Willie's a good boy. About all I have to lecture him on besides eating properly is his habit of reading comic books. That boy spends hours, I swear, with those comics...