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...Wells: Prophet of Our Day appears four years after his death in 1946. Poland-born Antonina Vallentin, a naturalized Frenchwoman, has two qualifications for the job: 1) she knew Wells, 2) she is practiced in writing books about famous men (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, Heinrich Heine, Gustav Stresemann, Mirabeau, Goya). With H. G. Wells, she comes to grips with her first eccentric Briton-and emerges from the struggle wearing the pained, puzzled expression of a fighter who has been repeatedly but deftly rabbit-punched...
Sometimes, mourns Vogue in its early April issue, it seemed almost as if the U.S. woman just doesn't care enough. Take a Frenchwoman, going out for the evening. "She will have thought for hours about her entrance. If she is tired, she is simply 'not at home' all day . . . She may take a 'shade bath' (chaise longue, darkened room, eyepads) for two hours . . . Inevitably, a trip to the hairdressers . . . She knows her dress. If it is a line that stands better than it sits, she will spend the evening standing-and standing...
...Locomotive God. Loewy first dreamed of building cars and locomotives in Paris, where he was born and spent the first 26 years of his life. His father, Maximilian, was a Viennese journalist; his mother, Marie Labalme, a sturdy Frenchwoman who prodded her children by continually telling them: "Better to be envied than pitied." Young Raymond, the third of three sons, filled his school notebooks with so many sketches of locomotives, automobiles and airplanes that his parents sent him to engineering school...
...Mind. His failure to do so highlighted the greatest crisis of all-the crisis of the imagination. Civilizations do not fall primarily by a failure of force. They fall because of a failure of the mind and the instinct to survive. It was this failure that a Frenchwoman had in mind when she said to an American, in a sweltering Paris restaurant last week: "The fate of Western civilization is being settled now-this week. And there seems to be nobody, in your country or mine, or in any country, with enough imagination to save...
...meters, neither slackening nor quickening their punishing pace, they passed the mesdemoiselles. Some nine minutes later in regimented single file, with Champion Zaitseva in the lead, all seven crossed the finish line, 50 yards ahead of the first Frenchwoman. Six other French girls had quit cold in the first 1,000 meters. "The Russians were too formidable," said one. "Anyway it was too wet and I wanted to get home...