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...Fran Duggan took scoring honors with 17 points for the losers, while Frank Lionette's 11 markers paced the Crimson, which held a 24-20 halftime bulge. The freshman five, meanwhile, turned back Tabor Academy, 51-42, on the losers' court. The Jayvee summary: HARVARD (46) FG F T Mobraaten, rf 4 1 9 Rosinus 1 0 2 Altrocchi, lf 1 1 3 Goldsmith 1 0 2 Holt 1 0 2 Lionette, c 5 1 11 Guthrie 0 1 1 Covey (C), rg 2 0 4 Brynteson, lg 4 1 9 Tomsovic 0 0 0 Cohodes 0 0 0 McGiffert...
...Foreigners. It was also a year in which many well-known French novelists were brought to U.S. readers in translation. Three novels by François Mauriac acquainted U.S. readers with the painful penetration and classic structural quality of this eminent Catholic writer. The first two novels of Jean Paul Sartre's trilogy on France before World War II were studies in demoralization. André Gide reached All Hallows with the Nobel Prize and U.S. publication of the first volume of his Journals...
Died. General Jacques Leclerc (Vicomte Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque) 45, wartime field commander hero of the Fighting French, postwar Inspector-General of the French Army; in a plane crash; near Colomb-Bechar, on the Algeria-Morocco border. Brilliant, dashing, and a master tankman, Leclerc escaped from France in 1940, assumed the nom de guerre to avoid reprisals on his family...
...four final candidates for the Prize, Gide had been longest on the Academy's list. Runners-up: Benedetto Croce (81), Italian historian, philosopher and estheticist; T. S. Eliot (59), Anglo-Catholic poet and critic, who, unlike Gide, is an exponent of traditionalism; and François Mauriac (62), French novelist...
...gentle caricature of a motion picture-more particularly, of the French motion picture as it was bequeathed to him by the pre-'20s pioneers. Man About Town's story line is one that the movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets the two-dimensional look of paper cutouts...