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...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 for his wartime collaboration (TIME, May 4). Asked if this was a factor in his withdrawal, Benoit sidestepped with Gallic nimbleness: "It was not only that...
...election to the august French Academy, established 325 years ago by Cardinal Richelieu to safeguard the purity of the French language, was Novelist Paul (Ouvert la Nuit) Morand. At 70 he was suitably ancient, with his Scott Fitzgeraldish novels of the '20s had more claim to literary distinction than many of the "immortals" already in the academy. But he had also been Pétain's envoy, first to Rumania, then to Switzerland...
...Morand's first bid for election to the academy failed last year, after ten outstanding academicians publicly denounced his pro-Vichy record. This time, 18 of the academy's 36 members were pledged to vote for him, and he seemed likely to squeeze in. But minutes before the "immortals" were to start balloting, Morand withdrew his candidacy. The reason: pressure from De Gaulle...
...Morand said that De Gaulle (whose titles as President of France include that of Protector of the Academy) had asked him through intermediaries to postpone "a candidacy that, at present, still provokes too much partisan hatred." What really decided Morand, said Paris gossip, was the warning that De Gaulle would not receive him, if and when it came time for Morand to make the newly elected academician's traditional call on the President of the Republic...
...started calling witnesses to spell out the crime in squalid detail. A nun's face was pale as she sat with her crucifix in her lap and told of being tricked into releasing Bobby Greenlease from school to go to his "sick mother." Who had fooled her? Sister Morand hesitated, looked around, half rose and pointed at Mrs. Heady. Bonnie Heady faced her accuser impersonally. Carl Hall studied his shoes...