Word: frans
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DEFENSIVE BACKS: Two starters are returning, Joe Sciolla and Mike Page. Page led the team in interceptions with four, including a 45-yard touchdown return against Brown. Competing for the other berth are Barry Cronin (Ed's brother), Fran Cronin (no relation), Jon Judge, and Al Costello. Defensive backs: Fair to good...
Despite more than two decades of triumphs (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile), French Novelist Françoise Sagan, 39, has had more than her share of personal woes. After two divorces, a couple of car accidents and some sizable gambling losses, small wonder that the consummate writer of romances should have earned a reputation for the consumption of spirits. "I drink sometimes, but a lot less than I used to," she told the Italian magazine Gente this month. "When you drink, the time arrives when you don't eat any more; if you don't eat, then...
...working on the script of his 54th film long enough to attend his 75th birthday party last week. On hand at Chasen's to toast the director of Psycho and Frenzy was a galactic gathering of 250 well-wishers, including Actors Cory Grant and Paul Newman and Director François Truffaut. Despite the guest list and a cake adorned with 76 pastry tracings of the master's pudgy profile, Hitchcock was less interested in encomiums than work. "My new movie will involve kidnaping and the adventures of a medium," he explained. "The medium is actually a fake...
...Française...
...JEAN-FRANÇOIS REVEL, French author (Neither Marx nor Jesus): A great leader has original ideas and succeeds in having them accepted by millions or billions. These ideas can be wonderful or dreadful. Thus I have chosen the Athenian philosopher Epicurus and Adolf Hitler-the best and the worst. Epicurus because he defined a model way of life that was followed and is still followed today by many billions of people, which makes them happy without hurting anyone. Hitler because he had as much influence, although of an evil sort, through his ideas, which meant misery and destruction...