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Accordin1g to James M. Perrin '64, director of the PBH project, one of the main problems in these areas is that the children have no access to good literature; with an easy source of books in a pleasant condition, the children are much more likely to want to read them...
...first year of the project, PBH will probably limit itself to 30 or 40 children "at the very most" in order to be able to assess accurately the worth of the program. Perrin is optimistic that the project's first year of success will enable rapid expansion in the future in order to reach more children...
Eventually the project may be able to cover many more youngsters with a well-worked out directed reading program. According to Perrin, the biggest problem is not in obtaining the books, but in selecting the ones which will have the most effect...
...puller is Pierre Perrin, 32, a onetime government clerk whose marriage to Brigitte Bardot's movie stand-in broke up in 1958. Despondent, Perrin tried suicide (poison and gas). On recovering, he took his psychiatrist's advice to drive a cab in Paris for the therapeutic value. Annoyed by gabby passengers, Perrin responded to their chatter with the same contemptuous wisecrack: "Mais tout (a ne vaut pas un clair de lune à Maubeuge" (But all that is not worth the moonlight at Maubeuge)-a retort all the more effective in that Perrin had never set eyes on Maubeuge...
Between fares, Driver Perrin pasted together some lyrics−"I've "traveled the world, I know the universe/ I've rolled in luxury, and I've rolled my r's/ And I say, no-no, no, no, no . . . All that's not worth the moonlight at Maubeuge"-and put them to music. At first, hearing the song, the Maubeugeois felt insulted, but as crowds of the curious began to visit the town, shopkeepers and bistro owners changed their tune. Crescent-shaped lights were strung over the streets; shop windows were filled with moon-shaped cookies...