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...this strange Frenchman, whose psychic moods, personal habits, political methods and achievements strangely resembled Adolf Hitler's, Novelist Aldous Huxley this week published the first biography to be written in English. Father Joseph is an almost perfect subject for Aldous Huxley. The amoral novelist (Antic Hay, Point Counter Point) has become increasingly preoccupied with moral dilemmas (Eyeless in Gaza, Ends & Means) and increasingly a mystic...
Three weeks ago a fanatically patriotic young Frenchman, Paul Collette, put the pistol to two of France's German-serving arch-collaborationists, onetime Premier Pierre Laval and Editor Marcel ("Why Die for Danzig?") Déat of L'Oeuvre (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week Editor Déat, shot in the throat and belly, was nonetheless able to write an editorial, which he facetiously titled Impressions of an Assassinated Man, saying that his shooting was "troublesome" because his "last articles came near to being posthumous...
When Photographer Hill started taking pictures in the 18405, photography was as new and primitive as television is today. The Frenchman, Louis Jacques Daguerre had just astonished the world by making the first photographs on chemically treated plates. In Manhattan Samuel F. B. Morse, who had just invented the telegraph, was busy on the roof of New York University making new-fangled "sun pictures." Morse's models, faces whitened with powder, had to sit immobile for half an hour in the sunlight, before their likenesses registered in his primitive camera...
...newcomer to the U.S. is the syndicate which signed up Elsa. Called Press Alliance, Inc., it is headed by Paul Winkler, a slight, 43-year-old, U.S.-admiring Frenchman who, until the Nazis arrived, operated Europe's largest feature syndicate (Opera Mundi). A sort of French version of Hearst's King Features (whose representative Winkler was for years), Opera Mundi differed from U.S. syndicates in two respects: It also acted as a literary agency and publisher of magazines. It had the largest women's magazine (Confidences: circ. approximately 1,000,000), three children's magazines, including...
...Londoners rehearsed three weeks for their programs, which were chosen by Widow Coolidge, included two quartets dedicated to her (by Frenchman Darius Milhaud, Italian Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, both expatriates in California). The four musicians said they felt "as though we never had been separated." To their first audience they sounded that...