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...Paris, the august body of the Académie Française met to elect successors to fill the chairs made vacant by the deaths of Frédédric Masson, Pierre Loti, Charles de Freycinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Three Immortals | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

Balloting resulted in the election of : Émile Picard, member of the Academy of Science and professor of mathematics at the Sorbonne; Albert Besnard, Director of the Académie des Beaux Arts, best known artist in France; Georges Lecomte, journalist, author, playwright, historian, critic - literary handy man. The latter's political biography of ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau is said to be the best of its kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Three Immortals | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

...links, near Chicago, a company of overheated golfers drove, brassied, mashied their many balls. The mi- rage that led them on was the Western Amateur title. They challenged one another's right to continue the quest and in the end Albert Seckel of Chicago and Harrison R. ("Jim-mie") Johnston of St. Paul played on alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mirage | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...been vanquished." Literary circles of Paris discussed this new definition with much heat, but although they felt that M. le Maréchal was wrong they had a sneaky feeling that his meaning ought to be right. Finally, the Forty Immortals of the Académie Française decided that invincible means what le Maréchal Foeh said it meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foch, Lexicographer | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...Chansons Populaires. (a) Adieux a la Jeunesse; (b) Pierre et sa mie; (c) Le Petit Bois d'Amour; (d) Corbleu Marion; (e) Margoton (Soprano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECITAL OF CHAMBER MUSIC | 11/5/1914 | See Source »

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