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...oldest and richest east coast resorts have moved with the times, accepting with greater or less grace an influx of new families, who may or may not have the money the old families had???but then, neither do the old families any longer. In this area, few people stayed?or stay?at hotels. They built their own houses, or rented a native one for the summer, and took the whole family...
Result was that when the frustrated soldiers and settlers of Algiers broke into revolt last May, De Gaulle was, in his own words and in a sense that had never been true before, "ready to assume the powers of the Republic." He knew precisely what assets he had???his own immense prestige and the fact that the only alternative was civil war. His technique was very much like that of the bandit hero of a play he had written at 15. In De Gaulle's youthful play the bandit, as he strips a traveler of his belongings, periodically abandons flowing...
Voters will be told that he is the very soul of courage and honesty?and that he cowers before the Tammany tiger. His friends will extol him as one of the most competent and successful administrators New York has ever had???and his critics will insist he has been only a poor imitation of Al Smith, the loose ends of whose vast
...behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had???you would think that she could sit down at a typewriter and dash off a novel as a reporter accomplishes an assignment. Not so. For this task of writing, she trains much as an athlete trains for a race. Rain or shine, she walks several miles each day. Several times...