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Died. Prince François de France, 25, second son of eleven children of the Count de Paris and thus third in line of succession to the nonexistent throne of France; in a skirmish with Algerian rebels while serving as a second lieutenant with a French army infantry battalion; in Algeria's Kabylia Mountains...
Positive proof that Sweden's Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman is an admirer of France's favorite adult bedtime storyteller, supreme Triangulator Françoise Sagan, came last December when Ingrid agreed, without haggling about acting conditions or money, to star in a movie version of François latest bundly bagatelle, Do You Like Brahms? Francoise, visiting the movie's set at Paris' Boulogne Studios, obviously reciprocated the admiration...
...Warren High School, Fran Doroshow, 18, a pediatrician's daughter who started it all, said she got mostly A's and ranked seventh in her class ('59). At Boston's Simmons College this past year, she got a jolt. Simmons festooned her freshman English essays with C-minuses, and she knows why. "In all my years in high school," recalls Fran, "I wrote only two essays and one term paper. They came back with A's and no criticism." French was an equal bust: "I had three years of French in high school, but when...
...Disappearing Boom." But the Economist was not alone in its concerned view from abroad. The French financial weekly, La Vie Française, lamented that "for more than a year, it has been evident that a real 'boom' in the American economy is impossible." The London Financial Times predicted that "this year seems fated to go down in history as the year of the disappearing boom." Giro Koike, senior managing director of Japan's Yamaichi Securities Co., said that many leaders of Japanese industry, who are watching the U.S. economy, feel that the U.S. has entered...
...perhaps the Cuban revolution would invent it; for it is the United States which conserves the freshness and originality of the revolution." Not to be outdone, Paris' weekly L'Express commissioned one of France's ranking Left Bankniks for similar duty. It sent 25-year-old Françoise Sagan, confector of adult bedtime stories (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile), off to Cuba in low-heeled shoes. Her considered opinion: Cuba-shmooba. In her first installment, published last week, she took weary note of the countryside from the train bearing her to a camp rally...