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AIMEZ-VOUS BRAHMS . . (127 pp.)-Françoise Sagan-Dutton...
...some readers. Françoise Sagan's novels are of interest chiefly for the light they seem to reflect on their author. In Bonjour Tristesse, the light revealed a child passionately and exuberantly weary of the world, but now it shows an adult who seems tired of writing books. There is little in Author Sagan's latest (and fourth) novel worth a compliment or a damn, although readers with an ironic turn of mind may cherish the 23-year-old author's reference to "that incomparable love that comes with age." The story, hardly more than...
...WLOK, moved on to WWJ in Detroit as an announcer before going into the Army in World War II. (He collapsed after a four-week basic training course and got a medical discharge.) During an eleven-year stretch with NBC in Chicago, he got into TV, announced for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, followed that with 894 hours on Arlene Francis' Home show in New York. In addition to his night work on the Paar show, he runs a daytime TV game called Concentration, also has a weekend post on radio's Monitor...
...Gaulle's abolition of a parity index hitching farm prices to market prices had hit them hard. But the indignant farmers at Amiens (pop.100,000) were pushed into a rampaging mood by right-wing agitators who broke up their gathering with cries of "Vive null and "Algerie Française !" The head of the farmers' group was himself stoned to unconsciousness as he tried to quell the agitators...
...Blows (French). A small boy takes it on the lam from the mean and loveless world of his parents. But under François Truffaut's direction, society itself takes the blame for his flight...