Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while Jazz Hot was doing its best to unfuddle bop, curious and carefully shellacked socialites, fringe-faced Left-Bank intellectuals, and, of course, les zazous éternels (hepcats) were packing Paris' big, modern Salle Pleyel to dig the "true groove" for themselves...
...again and sniffing the friendly presidential air for the first time in months. He sat pleased and smiling at Harry Truman's own table. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, another doghouse tenant in pre-convention days, also had slipped back into the family. Ailing Les Biffle, Senate Secretary and a pal of many birthdays' standing, left his bed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital just to be there...
...into print. "Some of my acquaintances did not recognize me," recalled Maurice, "while my friends gave me their hands with an air of pity." Bitter and hurt, he left his native land and went to Paris. There he soon found kinder friends, produced the brooding, mystical plays and essays (Les Aveugles, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Life of the Bee) which made his fame worldwide. Critics praised him. He won the Nobel Prize...
...meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...
...minutes later he went into the office of his old friend, Les Biffle, the Secretary of the Senate. He shook hands with two amazed secretaries and dashed off another memo: "Les: I wish you were here. I tried to see the VP. He was gone. Now you're out. What do I do? H.S.T...