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Malraux insists: "It is not I who have evolved, but events." He is indignant over charges that De Gaulle is against republican liberties. He cries: "There are 70,000 adherents to De Gaulle's Rassemblement du Peuple Français from the Gironde Department alone. Do you think there are 70,000 fascists in the Gironde...
...Humpty Dumpty told Alice, it was simply a question of who was master. After weeks of secret palaver in London, the Compagnie FranÇaise des Petroles withdrew its objections to the $200 million deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. to go into Saudi Arabia (TIME, March 24). But Standard's announcement of settlement was tinged with annoyance: before the deal could be closed, it had to be approved by Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. And last week, Gulbenkian wasn't having...
...trustee of Taft School, an active member of several YMCA boards and committees, Fran Pratt has a personal interest in education that exactly fits his additional duties as director of our work with hundreds of schools, colleges and universities, which use TIME'S material for teaching purposes, with clubs and forums using special material for studying and discussing world problems, and with individual requests from educators...
...when Fran Pratt was graduated from Yale and went to work for General Electric in his home town of Schenectady, the circulation of two-year-old TIME was 75,000. In 1939, when he came to TIME after a hitch at the Harvard Business School and considerable experience in retailing and magazine publishing, our circulation was 750,000. Today, with over 1,500,000 paid circulation in his corner, he could be forgiven for relaxing a bit. But Pratt, who is a ruddy, blue-eyed, eupeptic father of three (two boys, a girl) with an appalling propensity for work...
Among his most rewarding and faithful correspondents are the servicemen who wrote to him all during the war about TIME's Pony and other editions they were getting overseas. They deluged him with battle flags, daggers, and other souvenirs of their gratitude. Fran Pratt is rightfully proud of the fact that more than 400,000 of them are now civilian subscribers and newsstand buyers of TIME and that they still write...