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...little things. Like that expression soyez braves. Only a man from the south of France would have said it. One never knows just which little item will lead to the criminals." But at week's end, the only other clues found by the Cannes police in a blinding mistral were the abandoned Citroen and, in the car, a pair of maroon gloves and Basque beret, all with Marseille labels. Mused one policeman darkly: "Probably left in the car to throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Soyez Braves | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San Francisco and unfamiliar stories like Roger Martin Du Card's smoldering Confidence Africaine. Examples of the work of writers unknown in the U.S. (e.g., Chilean Poetess Gabriela Mistral and Finnish Novelist Frans Eemil Sillanpää) are alone enough to make it a valuable book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bargain | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...Victoria Ocampo and Nobel Prizewinner Gabriela Mistral were born on the same day, April 7, but the Chilean poetess is two years older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Potted Cactus | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Gabriela Mistral, handsome, 56-year-old Chilean poetess (Los Sonetos de la Muerte), found herself still the lioness of social Stockholm a fortnight after receiving the Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 26) from towering King Gustaf. Poetess Mistral found Sweden's social democracy "a century ahead of everything else," but prepared to move on to another, gentler climate. Last a resident of Brazil's fair-&-warmer Petropolis, she would now head for California's Los Angeles, hopes to find a home, an office, and settle down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Collectors' Items | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Said he: "You must leave on Sunday, Gabriela Mistral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Winner | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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