Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Suzy Parker, 28, angular, red-haired cinemactress and fashion model: Pierre de la Salle, 33, French journalist-playboy; after six years of marriage, one child; in Paris; on grounds of incompatibility. Said Suzy before the couple separated last year: "I've been told I can't cook, I can't sew, and I'm not fit to be a wife . . . It's O.K.; I'm playing along with the game, and when the right moment comes I'll let him have it right between the eyes...
Georges Pernoud, French journalist, and Sabine Flaissier, historian, have brilliantly executed the astute notion of telling the story of the French Revolution in terms of eyewitness stories culled from 50,000 items in the national archives. The book gives all the blooming, buzzing confusion of a new world being created but not yet comprehended or tidied up by the hindsight or partisanship of a Michelet, Taine or Carlyle...
Leading the French delegation will be Louis Joxe, 59, De Gaulle's Minister for Algerian Affairs. An ex-teacher and journalist, Joxe is a sophisticated intellectual with an instinctive flair for politics. "All in all," says a friend, "a cool sort of fellow." At the head of the F.L.N. team will probably be stubborn, soft-spoken Ahmed Francis, 49, who has spent the past four years as the F.L.N.'s chief fund raiser and accountant. A World War II French army medical officer and former Deputy in the French Assembly, Francis is a close personal friend of rebel...
...benediction for professionalism and tapped three veteran writers for the $1,000 National Book Awards. Honored were Novelist Conrad Richter, 70, for his tenth novel, The Waters of Kronos (TIME, April 18, 1960), an old man's fevered attempt to distill the lessons of his forgotten youth; Journalist William L. Shirer, 57, for his massive (1,245 PP) study of Hitler's Germany, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (TIME, Oct. 17); and Poet Randall Jarrell, 46, for his eighth book, The Woman at the Washington...
...that figure of serious fun. The story's uncertain hero is a printer in a small Indian town who bats out jobs on an ancient press but finds his real pleasure in running a kind of literary salon whose major figures are an unpublished poet and a jobless journalist. Slam-bang into his nerveless world crashes a huge, careless taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning...