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...niece, Nancy White. Under her editorship the magazine has become less literary and more topical. While it once ran such titans as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Thomas Hardy, it now favors such social commentators and fashionable authors as Britain's Kenneth Tynan and France's Françoise Sagan. Nancy White and her editors take pride in the fact that Bazaar was the first to play up bikinis (on Suzy Parker), women's boots, big watches, and was the first to run a man (Steve McQueen) on the cover...
...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). A new show hosted by Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison, of Kukla, Fran and Ollie fame, which will show the best in motion pictures for children from around the world. This week's film is Skinny and Fatty from Japan. Premiere...
...Died. François C. Erasmus, 70, South African politician, one of his country's fiercest supporters of anti-British, white-supremacist doctrines, who in 1952, as Minister of Defense, purged most of the military's World War II leaders because they had fought in "Britain's war," and in 1960, as Minister of Justice, was largely responsible for the ill-famed Sharpeville massacre of 72 Africans protesting the apartheid passbook laws; of a heart attack; in Bredasdorp, South Africa...
...Unlimited Nonchalance." Probably the best proof of Françoise's intelligence is that she does not kid herself about her work. Her songs invariably leave her "dissatisfied four or five months after." Of her first film, Sagan's A Castle in Sweden, she recalls how "all the critics said everybody was bad but me. I was not good, but I wasn't as bad as they expected...
...Françoise has the sort of don't-care-girl candor that drives publicists crazy. She lives with a photographer, Jean Perier, in Paris-and right next door to her mother at that. Impresario Coquatrix worries that she "does not have the dedication and passion" for a show-biz career, and Roger Vadim complains of her "unlimited nonchalance." In Manhattan last week, Françoise was dragging through a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promotion campaign for Grand Prix. On her turtleneck sweater was pinned a button that said APATHY...