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Provincetown, Mass. Playhouse on the Wharf: Three Words in No Time, a play by Belgium's sulphurously philosophical Playwright Michel de Ghelderode...
...soon blazing its usual exclusive sidetracks all over the map. In Paris the huntsmen-Editor-in-Chief Hearst, National Editor Frank Conniff and Columnist Bob Considine-aimed for President de Gaulle, but missed (he never grants such audiences, not even with a Hearst) and had to settle for Premier Michel Debré. What about France's future? they asked. "One must never construct the distant future with only the date of the present time," answered Debré vaguely. Before cabling this wisdom to the U.S., Debré's visitors promised to send him a copy of their story...
Family Man. A Goldwater-Barry's grandfather-was staking his claim in Arizona history before the wild old territory even had a capital. Born in Konin, Russia, in the early 1820s, Michel Goldwasser emigrated at the age of 27 to England, where he married and Anglicized the family name. Lured by tales of the California gold rush, he shipped out for San Francisco in 1852 with his younger brother Joseph, sold whisky and hard goods to the mining camps of Sonora...
What's Up? Premier Michel Debré was the first in Paris to learn that the rebellion was on. Calling the delegate general to Algeria, Jean Morin, to check on rumors of impending trouble, Debre snapped, "What's up?" Over his bedroom telephone. Morin answered: "I'm not free. These gentlemen are in my room. I can't say any more except that we're well." Debre at once aroused De Gaulle, who had spent the evening at the thea ter with Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
Devotees of Camus will welcome a permanent copy of the superb dialogue with Jean Block-Michel, which was repdinted from in the November 23, 1957 issue of The Reporter. Here, in a translation that lacks the power of the Reporter version, it is retitled The Wager of Our Generation. Serious readers can find no more precise or cogent summary of the values that moved Camus throughout his life...