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...anniversary of her sister's death. Sister Lili died in 1918, a few years after winning the coveted Grand Prix de Rome.* Nadia considered her sister's talent greater than her own. In the large, cold chapel of Paris' La Trinite Church, 100 people gathered to attend a low Mass for Lili. As she does every year, Nadia Boulanger had arranged a music program in Lili's memory. Nadia sat in a front pew; she did not play the organ music-though she is a top organist...
German P.W. camp to help print the underground paper Lettres Françaises in a Montmartre cellar. He is the first nonacademic artist ever to win the coveted Prix National de Peinture, and also one of the most articulate members of the twelve. Says...
Elsa Triolet is the wife of Poet Louis Aragon, one of whose recent volumes was named The Eyes of Elsa. In 1944, she won France's Prix Goncourt with her short stories; but readers are not likely to find her new book a prizewinner...
...France, a big brown three-year-old named Souverain won the Grand Prix de Paris, then crossed the Channel to meet Britain's best in the King George VI stakes last month. It was no contest: Souverain won, eased up, by five lengths...
Georges Bernanos is France's most distinguished Catholic author-and his own Church's sharpest critic. His literary reputation rests chiefly on three religious novels : Diary of a Country Priest, Joy, The Star of Satan (TIME, June 17, 1940). Joy won the Prix Femina in 1929, and now appears in translation for the first time...