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...actress, Moreau enjoyed her first moment of triumph, but she was miserable over the loss of Malle. She moved from her old apartment in the Latin Quarter to a house in Versailles, and took stock. She was 30 years old, and what did she have? Offers of films. A pen for signing autographs. An occasional friend. It was a bleak time and she considered giving up films altogether. But her life was fully committed to the rhythm and whirl of moviemaking. And if she wasn't an actress, after all, she was very little else. She brooded over...
...Spanish ships were blasted out of the water and 500 Spanish soldiers were slaughtered. It was a famous victory, but Hawkins was not happy about it. "If all the miseries of this sorrowfull voyage should be throughly written," he confides, "there should neede a painefull man with his pen...
...Times plastered Mauldin's coverage all over the paper. In the heat of battle, the cartoonist put pen and sketching pad aside for more urgent assignments, but by week's end, he had delivered a batch of drawings from Up Front...
Hooray for You. Even before the invitation from the News, however, Ala bama lawyers had begun responding to the article - in personal letters to Professor Frankel. Most of the letters were attacks on Northern prejudice. But along with the poison-pen mail came letters from five Alabama lawyers who had been provoked into re-examining their own obligations as members of the bar. "Hooray for your excellent anal ysis," said an attorney in Montgomery...
Recently a photographer asked Duchamp to sign his autograph book. He explained to the artist that, since those he photographs are his hosts, it was a sort of a guest book in reverse. Duchamp whipped out a pen and, writing backwards, jotted down his signature in a perfect mirror image. For what it is worth, this was also Leonardo da Vinci's favorite device, in his notebooks, for keeping his secrets to himself...