Word: parise
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I note that the words "bumptious young Americans" are used to describe those who founded the Paris Review [Aug. 11]. If the word bumptious is to be interpreted as "offensively self-assertive," it might better be applied to those who had whatever hand in producing this particular story. The Review...
Our appreciation to TIME for devoting so much space to the small-circulation Paris Review and for recognizing the value of such magazines. Thomas H. Guinzburg, one of the Review's owners, should have been listed as a founder.
GEORGE PLIMPTON (Editor of Paris Review) Fishers Island, N.Y.
Last week, French army headquarters in Algiers belatedly announced that six weeks ago one of its patrols had stumbled upon the bullet-ridden body of Olivier Dubos. In Paris bitter newspaper articles charged that Dubos had been killed because he was "too much loved in Moslem homes." But in a...
Olivier Dubos was no more eager than any other young French reservist to be called back to the service and sent to Algeria. A towering, 35-year-old reserve lieutenant who held the Croix de guerre for World War II gallantry, Lieut. Dubos was bitterly resentful a year and a...