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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Count Jacques Edouard de Sieyes, 58, French diplomat (General de Gaulle's personal wartime representative in the U.S.) and business executive (Patou perfume); by drowning in the River Seine, Paris; reportedly by his own hand, because of financial worries.
Lost Boundaries (Film Classics), first published as a real-life drama in Reader's Digest, described the tragic dilemma of a fair-skinned Negro family in a small New England town who for years had "passed" as whites. The father was a prosperous doctor and a pillar of the...
By far the best thing in the show is Ray Bolger, who dances in his own long-legged, rag-doll fashion-without even trying to imitate the crisper style of Jack Donahue. In one scene, as elegantly leggy as a giraffe, he ambles and ogles his way through a wonderful...
Vasco Pratolini's jigsaw picture of violence, perversion and young love is colored by a tired tenderness for people too much at the mercy of their own appetites and apathies to fight or even to visualize the blackshirt terror closing in. Some readers will not have the patience to...
When a girl has spent a lot of time and money fixing her face, it is tough to run slap into a wacky stranger who declares that he has fallen in love with her at first sight because she has the world's muddiest skin and largest pores. Should...