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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, whose connections with Peru had hitherto been obscure. Last weekend Berckemeyer did it again: an after-theater supper for British Actor Sir John Gielgud. French embassy parties, while never very big, are among the most enjoyable, are distinguished by the beauty of Ambassador Hervé Alphand's second wife (he was divorced, remarried last summer) and the ambassador's after-dinner impersonations of Winston Churchill and France's René Coty. ("If I had my choice between Maurice Chevalier and Alphand," says an admirer, "I'd take Alphand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Party Line | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...French Stalin, were in ferment; the intellectuals, a small but important faction because of their contacts with influential fellow travelers, were distraught and openly disobeyed party rulings. The party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though he had been kicked out of the party for criticizing its subservience to Russia. Would the party be forced to bend with the prevailing wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Violence of Fear | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

CONSTANCE, by Hervé Bazln (216 pp.; Crown; $3). French Author Bazin's novels (Viper in the Fist, Head Against the Walls) are as alive, cynical and human as the Paris Flea Market, but like that fascinating catchall, they end by suggesting that the props of life, and finally life itself, add up to a shabby bargain. In this work. Heroine Constance, hopelessly crippled in a World War II bombing, has no intention of divorcing herself from the world. Transformed from a good-looking, athletic girl into an object of pity, she determines to live through other people. Flip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

HEAD AGAINST THE WALL (255 pp.)-Hervé Bazin-Prentice-Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gallic Snake Pit | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...rakehell son is an old favorite of French fiction, and so is the mean-spirited bourgeois father who fails to understand him. From this familiar combination, a truculent French novelist named Hervé Bazin has written a fresh if uneven novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gallic Snake Pit | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

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