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Election to the French Academy is for eternity and its 36 distinguished members are known as the "Immortals." Last week the Immortals were stunned when 72-year-old Novelist Pierre Benoit, an Academy member since 1931, asked to resign. The Academy refused. Said Nobel Prize Author Francois Mauriac: "One does not resign from the Academy. One is immortal for eternity." Benoit, touched by the Academy's refusal but unpersuaded, replied: "I will never again set foot in the Academy. It would really be tactless of me." Benoit had supported the unsuccessful Academy candidacy of Paul Morand, a novelist rejected...
Vladimir Vasiliev, 19, the youngest member of the Bolshoi company. A favorite trick: to bound straight off the stage, extend one leg, tuck the other under him and casually descend in perfect balance on one foot...
Last week Little Rock, scene of an unfinished American morality play, produced a second act. At issue was a Faubus "suggestion" that the six-member Little Rock school board fire certain veteran teachers. Segregationists expanded the purge to 44 teachers, including the principal, two vice principals and 21 teachers at Central High School. No charges were specified; no hearings were held. The teachers, some of whom have been in Little Rock since the '20s, were simply "imprudent" about integration...
...STOP's support came an overwhelming majority of Little Rock's 13,000-member-P.T.A. council. When the P.T.A. at one grade school invited Attorney Amis Guthridge of the White Citizens' Council to state his pro-Faubus case, Guthridge merely grumbled a few words to the packed auditorium and sat down. Later he called the meeting "a trap," spoke darkly of "leftwing" P.T.A. leaders rigging "Communist-like demonstrations" at other schools. Such old saws cut no ice. What parents clearly preferred was the stand taken by Russell H. Matson, one of the moderate board members...
...official headquarters of Veritas action moved from Boston to New York, where the Foundation was formed with three new officers as Trustees. Set up as an "educational group," the Foundation claims tax-exempt status, "in the opinion of counsel"--an opinion which has yet to be tested. As any member of either group will admit, the now inactive Committee and the new Foundation are one in spirit, and cooperate closely...