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Married. Marie-Denise Duvalier, 24, eldest daughter of Haitian Dictator Fran?ois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier; and Jerome Max Dominique, 26, a captain in the Presidential Guard; he for the second time; in Port-au-Prince...
Avenging Dwarfs. Haunted by fantasies of an army of avenging dwarfs whose medical corps plans to melt him down to 18 inches, François-Francis lands in a Swiss mental clinic. Released after further plot complications, FranÇois-Francis starts hopping through the titled beds of France and he becomes the erotic talk of Paris. But his mad snobbery causes him to lose the rest of his money and his marbles. By the time the truth is out that dishonesty with oneself is not the best policy, he is past recognizing...
...Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, adoration of art knows no bounds. He has put Marc Chagall's lovers on the ceiling of the Paris Opéra, Maillol bronzes in the Tuileries gardens, Masson's abstracts in the dome of the Comédie Française. He has washed the face of Paris from a dingy grey to honey-colored sandstone, and his art history, Voices of Silence, was a monument to a world he saw as "a museum without walls...
While Malraux sweltered, awaiting a hearing on his appeal, Clara hurried back to Paris where she got a petition from impressionable intellectuals urging the French colonial government to spare him. The signatures included André Gide, François Mauriac, André Maurois, Louis Aragon, André Breton and old Anatole France. The upshot was a reduction of Malraux's sentence to one year, which colonial authorities quietly did not bother to enforce...
Reaction in the Square was mixed. Fran Greenberg '70 said "My reaction is mixed...