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This is the simple outline of Novelist-Playwright Felicien Marceau's new book, but it is the portraits within, not the frame without, that make it a sparkling display of French tragicomedy. An irresistible pair are stern father de Gau-grand, a half-mad patrician whose "broad back [extends] like the Great Wall of China," and his wife, who wears newspapers (for warmth) throughout the winter and sits down to all meals in hat and overcoat. Daughter Denise, raised in this nutty household, is more than a bit weak in the head, but far from weak in will...
...apart from the Albany Governor's mansion, an elegant, five-story Manhattan townhouse, a summer place on Long Island, a Florida hideaway, the caretaker's cottage at the Arden estate (he gave the big house to Columbia University, which uses it for special conferences). Beneath his placid, patrician bearing, he flexes long-toughened sinews of a first-rate, determined administrator and an autocrat of the timetable, is a stickler for details ("Honest Ave, the Hairsplitter"). He badgers aides at all hours, once sent state police searching for a commissioner who had failed to check out properly. Intense...
...year-old New York Herald Tribune, tradition-proud, independent Republican and ailing, passed last week from the patrician hands of the Reid family, its owners for 85 years. For the announcement, the Reids gathered in a seventh-floor office of the Trib's Manhattan building on dingy West 41st Street: tiny, doughty Helen Rogers Reid, 75, who ran the paper from the 1947 death of her husband Ogden Mills Reid until 1955, and her sons Whitelaw, 45, and Ogden, 33, who thereafter worked mightily to cure its ills. "This is a development," said boyish Ogden ("Brownie") Reid, "that...
Where are the lissome, patrician blondes of yesteryear? From the piney suburbs of Oslo, the filing cabinets of Bremerhaven and the swimming pools of Stockholm they came. They brought their marimbas, their mothers and snug bathing suits, and they headed for the place where men waited with jeweled crowns, ermine robes, cameras and public-address systems-all to the glory of the cosmetics and bathing-suit industries. They were on their fair-haired way to glory as Miss Universe-or as starlets and models...
General Fuad Shehab, 56, patrician, arthritic, French-trained professional soldier, has headed Lebanon's 8,000-man army since 1945. A Maronite Christian, he is a collateral of the famous Emirs Mansur, Yusuf and Bashir who ruled Lebanon under the Ottoman Turks. Eighty percent of his officers, 60% of his men are Christian. Six years ago, when Chamoun's predecessor tried to stay in office during an unpopular second term, Shehab refused him the army's assistance and reluctantly served as acting president until Chamoun's election. Ostentatiously unwilling to order his troops to fight except...