Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pierre, a Basque from St.-Jean-de-Luz, never held a court tennis racquet in his hand until he was 29. But by that time he had already served as a machine-gunner in the French army, was the French champion at the Basque games of chistera (jai alai), pala (jai alai with a small bat), and mains nues (handball). Within a year of taking up the 700-year-old game of court tennis, Pierre was champion of France, and five years later, in 1928, he was champion of the world...
...Golden Coach. Jean Renoir's costume comedy of Spain's golden age, as rich in color as his father's paintings; with Anna Magnani at her best (TIME...
...Robe. The first CinemaScope film; starring Richard Burton, Victor Mature and Jean Simmons (TIME, Sept...
...SHORT NOVELS (188 pp.)-Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Etnier, Clyde Miller, Shelby Foote-Ballantine (cloth $2.75, paper...
Most disturbing of the three is Jean Stafford's expertly written A Winter's Tale. With its prewar Heidelberg setting (where Author Stafford was once a student), its subtle mixture of Nazi erosion, false piety and neurotic love, this is not a story for those who want happy endings. Domineering Frau Professor Gait is hated not only by her husband and her young American visitor, but by her young lover as well. To the American girl who takes the lover away briefly before he goes on military maneuvers, he seems at once preoccupied, cruel and dead inside...