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...market. From midnight to dawn it was the heart of Paris as well as the belly, as farmers trundled in with their bounty, chefs and grocers arrived to buy it, and prostitutes and pickpockets merged for different kinds of commerce. Such restaurants as Au Pied de Cochon, Le Pere Tranquille and Au Chien Qui Fume lured socialites in white ties as well as butchers in blood-spattered white smocks, often as the sun was rising. Left Bank intellectuals, statesmen, artists and American expatriates like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were all habitues of Les Halles' all-night eating...
...Jaime Gonzales and Alan Quasha captured the crucial fourth and fifth victories at number six and nine respectively. Gonzales, cheered at every point by his parents who had come from Puerto Rico for the match swept his contest in three games against captain Pere Singer...
...FRUITS OF WINTER by Bernard Clavel. 382 pages. Coward-McCann. $6.95. Mere and Pere Dubois cope less with World War II than with the grim guerrilla assaults of old age in this incessantly poignant, Goncourt prizewinning novel of French village life...
...Donald Albanito, a juror in the 1967 murder trial of Mass Murderer Richard Speck, spent four weeks cooped up in the Pere Marquette Hotel in Peoria, Ill. Albanito, head of the business faculty at Peoria's Bradley University, said the jurors became so bored that they spent long hours idly gazing out hotel windows. When a bailiff ordered one man to close his window, reports Albanito, the edgy juror shouted at him: "If you so much as touch that damn window, I'll throw a chair right through...
...Roger Planchon directs one of the leading companies of France during its visit to the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the Lincoln Center Festival '68. Dumas Pere's The Three Musketeers and two Molière classics, George Dandin and Tartuffe, will be playing through July...