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Married. Lawrence Durrell, 49, prolific Irish author of The Alexandria Quartet, a four-volume "investigation of modern love" turned out in 9½ months of feverish writing; and Claude Ford, 35, shapely, blonde French-Egyptian writer, linguist and trained electrician, his mistress during six years of poverty and sudden success; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. Durrell's second wife, like his demonic heroine, Justine, was a mysterious Alexandria Jewess, known only as Eve, who now lives in London. Said Claude Ford of last week's marriage: ''Purely a formality...
Meet the Professor (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). Interview with Henry Lee Smith, linguist at the University of Buffalo...
Latin scholars, whenever they peek out from behind their soup-stained neckties and that untidy mess of irregular verbs, seem to be nice old dears. Take Alexander Lenard, M.D., a 50-year-old Hungarian linguist who for the last eight years has been teaching and farming in a small town near Sāo Paulo, Brazil. When he first read A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, he apparently thought of all those poor little children in ancient Rome who would never be able to read it, and he felt just awful. There was only one thing...
Needs & Wants. Not all Casbah scholars are social scientists. Recent alumni include M.I.T.'s noted Mathematician Claude Shannon and Literary Critic Mark Schorer, who worked on his biography of Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "Here I need no library," said Harvard Linguist Roman Jakobson. "If I have a question in psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, literature, I just go down a few doors and knock: 'May I come...
Literally the closest man to Khrushchev coast to coast will be Oleg Troyanovsky, 38, his personal interpreter and probably the best Russian-English linguist in the world. Troyanovsky, son of ex-Czarist Officer Alexander Troyanovsky, who was the U.S.S.R.'s first Ambassador to Washington (1934-38), attended the Quakers' Sidwell Friends School in Washington ("Blessed with that charm, the certainty to please," said the student quarterly), put in his freshman year at Swarthmore before returning to Moscow University. Troyanovsky first appeared in the Kremlin big picture as Stalin's interpreter in the 1947 conference with U.S. General...