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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Georges Lecompte, 91, august, white-bearded permanent secretary of the august 40-member French Academy, playwright (La Meule, Mirages), novelist (L'Espoir, Servitude Amoureuse), historian (Espagne), art critic (L'Art Impressioniste); in Paris...
...bumptious young Americans" are used to describe those who founded the Paris Review [Aug. 11]. If the word bumptious is to be interpreted as "offensively self-assertive," it might better be applied to those who had whatever hand in producing this particular story. The Review was founded by Harold L. Humes and Peter Matthiessen, the author of two novels and many notable short stories. The first two recruits were George A. Plimpton and Thomas H. Guinzburg...
...prices. The corner was nothing like those when Morgan and Harriman battled for the Northern Pacific, gobbling up so much stock that shorts had to bid Northern Pacific from $170 to $1,000 in one day. But it was bad enough. In a single day, the stock of E. L .Bruce Co., a small Memphis hardwood flooring manufacturer, jumped $100 a share after the American Stock Exchange ruled that short sellers had to cover their positions on demand...
...L. Jacobowsky, gentle, modest, resourceful, wryly philosophical, and also frightened silly because he is a Jewish Polish refugee stranded in Paris as the Wehrmacht plunges toward the city in the late spring of 1940. Cooped up in the same fleabag hotel with him is Colonel Tadeusz Boleslaw Prokoszny (Curt Jürgens), a class-conscious Polish nobleman who lives like the last tassel in the dying lunatic fringe of men dedicated to the proposition that women are to be loved, vodka is to be drunk, war is to be lived and honor is to be died for -preferably...
Last week, in a calm, sober study, Roy L. Reierson, vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., concluded that the bearish worries had far outrun the possibilities. "There is some feeling that the American economy may, within the next few years, be engulfed by a speculative, inflationary burst involving a flight out of dollars and money assets and into tangible property, gold or equities. The odds do not seem to favor such a prospect at this time...