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...semifinals, the national doubles tennis championship at Brookline, Mass, last week was played like most tournaments, strictly according to form. There was nothing that looked like an important upset until the quarter-finals when Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin had Henri Cochet and his 18-year-old partner, Marcel Bernard, two sets down and 2-0 in the third. Bernard went over to speak to Cochet. He seemed to be apologizing for his errors, promising to do better. Cochet smiled and the Frenchmen, piling up points as Bell & Mangin tired, won in five sets...
Proustians, whose numbers are growing in all Western lands, say that the late great Marcel Proust (died Nov. 18, 1922), half-Jew, half-snob, wholehearted rememberer of his past, was the ranking writer of his time. With U. S. publication of The Past Recaptured, seventh and last part of his gigantic "novel," The Remembrance of Things Past, which crept into print in France from 1913 to 1926, U. S. Proustians may now read their Bible from Genesis to Revelations, without benefit of dictionary...
...Author, Marcel Proust (pronounced "Proost") was born in Paris in 1871, son of a well-to-do bourgeois doctor and his Jewish wife. Delicate and sensitive from birth, he suffered all his life from asthma. From a very early age he was intellectually and socially ambitious, took himself with a seriousness which only success can excuse. His poor health did not prevent his taking his degree and serving his military service. His father wanted him to be a diplomat, but he postponed the issue by dabbling at the Sorbonne. Meeting with Henri Bergson influenced his decision on a literary career...
Though his friends said of him: "Marcel can never be anything but a man-about-town," Proust intended something different and bigger. Though his first two books (Portraits de peintres, Les plaisirs et les jours) were comparatively slight, attracted little attention, he was always taking notes for his Big Book, eventually filled 20 huge notebooks with material. After his beloved mother died in 1905, Proust retired from society, set to work in earnest. In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society...
...PAST RECAPTURED?Marcel Proust?A. & C. Boni...