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Died. Yves Tanguy, 55, French-born pioneer surrealist painter of impeccably drawn dream landscapes (Mama, Papa Is Wounded!; Slowly Toward the North; Indefinite Divisibility); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Waterbury, Conn. One of the group of young painters who formed the original surrealist school in Paris in the 1920s, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, became renowned for his stark pictures of rubble-strewn deserts and towering geometrical forms...
Divorced. By Corinne Calvet, 28, bosomy French-born cinemactress (On the Riviera): John Bromfield, 32, sometime cinemactor (The Cimarron Kid); after six years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...
George Washington himself picked the site of the city, not far upriver from his own estate. He appointed a French-born hero of the American Revolution, Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant, to draw up the plans, and L'Enfant, luckily, was a visionary. The major conceived a city of "magnificent vistas" laid out "on such a scale as to leave room for that aggrandizement and embellishment which the increase of wealth of the nation will permit it to pursue to any period, however remote...
Divorced. By George A. Hormel II, 25, heir to the Hormel meat-packing fortune (Spam) founded by his grandfather: Leslie Caron, 23, French-born Hollywood dancer (Lili); after 30 months of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
When a certified intellectual leads a long cheer for the U.S.-and moreover invites the jeers of his fellows by calling his book God's Country and Mine-it amounts to a conscious act of courage. French-born Jacques Barzun, 46, professor of history at Columbia University, has some reservations about his adopted country. The subtitle of his book is "A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words." But even after his grudging left hand has taken away some of what his generous right has dished out. God's Country still comes as a welcome antidote...