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...years, eleven Broadway musicals and 31 movies, twinkle-toed Hoofer Fred Astaire published his highly informal, do-it-yourself autobiography titled (on Noel Coward's suggestion) Steps in Time (Harper; $4.95). More a theatrical log than a self-portrait, the book brings Astaire from his Omaha boyhood (papa was a brewer of Austrian descent) to the pinnacle of popular dancing, a position he has enjoyed for half his life. Astaire fans will be elated to hear that the end of his career is nowhere in sight. Writes the mellowing top-hatter: "What is this age bit that goes...
...Affaires." "Papa's Algeria is finished," said Charles de Gaulle recently. The changes that began with De Gaulle's social and economic promises to the Moslems, and with an improved military situation, are visible everywhere, reports TIME Correspondent Edward Behr, who first went to Algeria on assignment in 1952, and has returned often since. The barbed wire has come down. No longer is everyone frisked before entering any cinema, shop or hotel...
...been entrusted with the political task of winning the Gaullist peace. Though France's military activity is greater than ever before, the army officers for the most part execute De Gaulle's fraternization policies faithfully. Many now direct their hatred at those who in the days of "Papa's Algeria" created the conditions that provoked the rebellion: the big absentee landlords; the inefficient officials who allowed the predatory caïds to rule as they pleased; the illiterate smalltime clerks, policemen and tradesmen who lorded it over the Moslems, despising, humiliating and at the same time fearing...
...change in Algeria: "A year ago I still wore the veil. It is true that thousands of us joined the maquis, and others helped them. But it was because there had been a series of faked elections, because the Moslems lacked everything: schools, hospitals, maternity centers. It was Papa's Algeria, with its parade of corruptions. I am one of those who never despaired in France, in De Gaulle who restored our confidence...
...Papa of Dada. Harold Loeb changed more patterns than most. His father was a Wall Street broker, his mother a Guggenheim. Like his cousin Peggy Guggenheim, Harold found the climate of wealth intellectually suffocating, the security guilt-edged. After working in a construction gang in Alberta and tending a bookstore, Harold found himself, in 1921, by founding Broom. Names famed and forgotten spill from Author Loeb's pages like unstuck pictures from a family album. There was Ezra Pound, "dressed like one of Trilby's companions" in "black velvet jacket and fawn-colored pants"; James Joyce, dour...