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Reminder to France. Next von Papen sent an ultimatum to France, discreetly conveyed in the form of an aide-mémoire handed by German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath to French Ambassador Andre Frangois-Poncet in Berlin. This little reminder merely asked that France consent to revision of...
Accustomed as tabloid readers are to seeing Sunday magazine articles enriched by reproductions of classic paintings- often of Eves and Bathshebas nuder than Follies beauties-readers of last Sunday's New York Mirror magazine section blinked in bewilderment at the fertile genius of the make-up man who had...
Literature is therapeutic. First physician to prescribe reading for his patients was hearty Dr. Frangois Rabelais (Gargantua, Pantagruel) in about 1530. Now bibliotherapy is being studied carefully. Im- probable novels should be given tuberculous patients, so that they will not excite themselves by attempting to emulate what they read. Feverish...
THE FAMILY-Frangois Mauriac- translated by Lewis Galantiere-Covici-Friede ($2). Not all French novelists write of the lighter side of love. Author Mauriac, serious though not quite gloomy, here chronicles with particularizing finger the ill fortunes of love in a French family of the Gironde (southwestern department of France...
Author Frangois Mauriac, 42, militant Catholic traditionalist, poet, essayist, novelist, is a native of Bordeaux who went to Paris as a young man to lead the literary life. One of his books, Desert of Love, was crowned by the Académie FranÇhise. Other books: Thér...