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Kerouac said he thinks Emily Dickinson, James Joyce and T.S. Eliot were the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and Marcel Proust, Jean Genet and William Faulkner the greatest prose writers. But "Hemingway was nowhere. He wrote childish sentences, like Beckett does...
France's top perfume makers-Chanel, Guerlain, Lanvin, Caron and Dior -have long skillfully employed this art to keep themselves fragrantly prosperous, but it has also been used with remarkable success by a relative newcomer to the ranks of the leaders. The newcomer is the house of Marcel Rochas, where le president is Mme. Helene Rochas, who took over the company when her husband died in 1955. Since then she has increased Rochas's busi ness tenfold, turning it into one of the six largest perfume makers in France; its turnover last year...
...first women dentists. Her father, a World War I hero who was fond of gambling, left his family little when he died. Helene took ballet lessons, became at seven the youngest of "The Opera Rats," and hoped for a career on the stage. At 18, she met Marcel Rochas-in the Metro...
Equally shrill is the Nationalist Independence Rally, once headed by Marcel Chaput, 45, a former government biochemist. Several months ago, Chaput embarked on a 34-day Gandhi-like fast and raised $100,000 for the separatist movement that he confidently predicts will win out before Canada reaches its centennial of Confederation in 1967. Last week Dr. Chaput drew angry cries of treason after he issued a warning to Queen Elizabeth, who plans to visit Canada next October. "Some of my people," he said, "are ready to let her know-and brutally-that she is no longer welcome in French Canada...
There have been many characterizations of French diplomats, from Marcel...