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Helene Lazareff knows how to mix such ingredients into a palatable Franco-American dish. She started out as an ethnologist, lived with an African tribe two months and sold a series of articles about the adventure to L'Intransigeant, caught on with Paris-Soir, married its editor, Pierre Lazareff. As the editor of Marie-Claire (a sort of Ladies' Home Journal with a French accent), she ran its circulation to 1,250,-ooo copies a week before France fell. As wartime refugees in the U.S., the Lazareffs kept busy, he with the French section...
Questions. This left most of the urgent Franco-American questions unanswered-at least publicly. What of German occupation, in which France wants a greater share? What of U.S. bases on French islands in the Pacific? What of French return to Indo-China? Presumably, most of the questions would not be answered until they had been dealt with at the forthcoming Council of Foreign Ministers. Meanwhile had the General made a good friend out of the President? Official Washington agreed that he had certainly tried...
Upton Sinclair has written still another novel about Lanny Budd, with his neat tan mustache, his Franco-American charm, and the art dealer's trade which takes him anywhere (TIME...
That this story of France was written in a house in New England's White Mountains is not surprising. Author Julian Green is one of the strangest Franco-American mixtures in American expatriate literature. His father was a Virginian, his mother came from Savannah, Ga.; he himself was born (1900) and raised in Paris where Father Green went to represent a U.S. oil company. Author Green, now 42 and in the U.S. Army, is an American citizen with twelve books to his credit (best known: The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey...
...this, the members of the Harvard unit will devote themselves as much as possible to the common effort of the powers fighting the Axis. Patrick Staehle '45, the secretary, appealed to the members at the meeting to "use France Forever as the chief means for preserving the spirit of Franco-American friendship. This will be more of a task now that Vichy shows signs of officially joining the Axis. The unit must continue to live because the friendship between America and true France must...