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...denounced with new force last week on both sides of the Atlantic, perhaps nowhere more fiercely than within Stern itself. Much of the 210-member editorial staff was obsessed with investigating the diaries fiasco. Others sought only to place the embarrassment behind them. Many called for the resignation of Henri Nannen, 69, who has been Stern's publisher since the magazine was founded in 1948. Others hinted that blame extends high into Stern's parent corporation, Gruner & Jahr, and even into the holding company, Bertelsmann AG, a publishing conglomerate (1982 sales: $2.4 billion) that includes Bantam Books...
...Henri Nannen, Stern's publisher since its founding in 1948, first reacted with scorn, declaring on German television: "The Federal Archives is not God Almighty." But he soon calmed down and admitted, "We have some reason to be ashamed." He announced that "there won't be a single word about these diaries in the next issue." He promised, however, to "make an attempt to uncover the history of this forgery for our readers," adding, somewhat needlessly, "We have no reason to protect the swindler...
Attacking the net at every chance yesterday, French Davis Cup star Henri Leconte shocked defending champion Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia yesterday to join second-seeded John McEnroe in the quarterfinals of the $500,000 Tournament of Champions at the famed West Side Tennis Club in New York...
...gone, and last week in Monaco he played his final tournament. In the first round, facing José-Luis Clerc, 24, Borg bobbed along the baseline like the champion of yore, putting the Argentine away in 77 minutes, 6-1, 6-3. But the next day, against Frenchman Henri Leconte, 19, Borg went down 4-6, 7-5, 7-6. Still, his sights are set differently now. "I know exactly what I want to do," said Borg of a newfound love of relaxation that developed during his half-year layoff in 1982. "I'm not going to play...
...consistent thought and action. A humor, as Elizabethan playwrights defined it, was an exaggerated human trait, a leaning of disposition so severe as to create a caricature. Thus a character in a comedy of humors would be called Squire Downright, and only downright would he act. In 1900, Henri Bergson proposed an elaborate theory of laughter based on just such a condition. Bergson held that we expect all things human, or connected to the human, to be pliant and fluid. Therefore any demonstration of human inflexibility is potentially funny...