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Married. Vincente Minnelli, 50, cinema director (An American in Paris); and French-born Georgette Magnani, 25; each for the second time (his first was Judy Garland); in Riverside, Calif...
Died. Francis Picabia, 75, wealthy, erratic French-born Cuban painter; of arteriosclerosis; in Paris. A bored, respectable success at 35, Picabia joined the madcap Dadaist revolt against tradition during the 20s, in 1950 enraged Paris critics with a deadpan display of canvases, each enlivened only by a colored dot placed just off center...
...proper study of mankind may be man, but writers from Aesop to George Orwell have found animals just as handy. Latest to study mankind by animal roundabout is French-born Novelist Raoul Faure, 43, a resident of California since 1941, who uses lizards for his parable, The Cave and the Rock...
Ufford, ranked sixth nationally, will be an underdog to several others at Buffalo, notably French-born Henry Salaun, former Wesleyan star and now first-ranked player in New England. Nevertheless, he is in the running and could return Monday as the new national champion...
...French-born Madeleine Henrey, a highly intelligent woman, must have realized the risk she was running in writing the story of her childhood. All she had to work with were the short and simple annals of the poor. Yet The Little Madeleine is a triumph over the facts of life, a moving story of considerable charm and readability that is all the more remarkable be cause it is not about anything or anybody of seeming importance. What raises this artfully simple book above the commonplace is Author Henrey's deep respect for life itself, anybody's life...