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...charge of this chaotic but thriving country, is likely to follow his predecessor in letting things alone. A fleshily handsome man, the son of a Maronite Christian druggist, he was graduated from the French-oriented College of St. Joseph and became editor of the French-language daily Le Jour, which has since folded. Helou became Lebanon's representative at the Vatican, later served in parliament and the Cabinet, most recently as Minister of Education. During the 1958 civil war, he joined a "third force" that was neutral in the conflict, and therefore, like retiring President Fuad Chehab...
...trust the clerk will read the Jour nal slowly and clearly," he drawled with a sly wink at Hubert Humphrey. The clerk did, thereby used up the better part of an hour. As soon as he finished...
...last week, a startling change had come over the city's concierges. They ostentatiously polished brass and industriously sewed rips in the hall carpeting. A tenant's "Bon jour" met with a joyous response instead of surly silence. The concierges suddenly delighted in performing small favors, and mail was distributed in a matter of minutes, not hours. This gracious rebirth of courtesy is an annual event caused by étrennes, the New Year's tips from tenants which ordinarily make up the better part of a concierge's income...
What he did then, no one knew. But now they do: Drury went back to his bachelor apartment and typed out the voluminous entries for A Senate Jour nal, 1943-1945. Published as his third book, it is unlikely to achieve the success of Advise and Consent. But for those interested in how the Senate worked and worried in that chaotic, midwar period, Drury's moonlighting was well worth while...
...readers in a sea of small type without so much as a single photograph to cling to. But he has also made his paper must reading by virtue of penetrating, if plodding, political reportage. The greatest success story has been scored by a fresh, energetic morning tabloid called Paris-Jour, which sells 185,000 copies by heeding the dictum of Owner Cino del Duca: "Don't preach down to people...