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...France's Charles Aznavour it is the transiency of love that hurts. L'amour c'est comme un jour-it dawns, it dies. C'est fini, he cries, with desolate finality. You've Let Yourself Go is an unsparing plaint of conjugal disenchantment. Aznavour has none of the rakish charm of Maurice Chevalier, the ebullient high spirits of Charles Trenet, or the blatant sex appeal of Yves Montand. But he has two qualities that none of them possess with the same intensity-fire and sorrow. He was trained by Edith Piaf, and if one closes...
...word of the most ubiquitous and widely quoted figure in American journalism today-a "highly placed," "highly reliable," but unidentified source. Conscientious newsmen have long distrusted such anonymous authority. "If you can't quote them, the hell with them," says Arville Schaleben, executive editor of the Milwaukee Jour nal-and many editors agree...
Added Paris-Jour: "The stupid Frenchman who says 'Don't go to the United States because Chicago is a gangster city, or to Dallas, the city of the rifle with the telescopic sight, or to Las Vegas, racket capital,' doesn't find a very big audience. Let's hope that Mr. Fulbright won't find any bigger one in America...
MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjold. As if it were some kind of Security Council document, the late U.N. Secretary-Gener al described this strange and moving jour nal as "a white paper concerning my nego tiations with God." The book portrays in aphorisms, essays, and even haikus Hammarskjold's mystical efforts to resolve agonizing religious doubts...
Last week the British Medical Jour nal finally noted some encouraging news for cold-sore sufferers; in Paris, a team of Pasteur Institute virologists, led by Dr. Pierre Lépine, has developed a vaccine that shows definite promise. They grew herpes simplex virus in cultures of kidney cells taken from sheep embryos; then the live virus was inactivated by exposure to ultraviolet light. As part of the testing program, the vaccine was injected into 20 patients who suffered from recurrent cold sores. After one year, eleven of the patients have had no recurrence of their herpes simplex eruptions, seven...