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...bulletin boards in The New Yorker's drab Manhattan office last week went a notice: "William Shawn has accepted the position of editor of The New Yorker, effective today." The announcement, signed by Raoul Fleischmann, the publishing company's president and largest stockholder, came as no surprise. As second in command under the late editor, Harold Ross, 44-year-old Shawn was his natural successor, although outwardly he is as different from Ross as The New Yorker is from the National Geographic...
...nervous little man just in from Iran. Was it oily-voiced Achille Zazsrewska ? Or was it Christopher Card, the hard-boiled American whose dialogue had an oldtime Hemingway flavor ("You remember the Place de la Concorde. You remember it fine")? Or it might even have been suave Raoul Felki, the Turkish commissioner of police...
Hotel. Ross edited two veterans' magazines and the fast failing Judge; then he decided to start his own. He persuaded a fellow poker player who had a lot of money, Raoul Fleischmann, to back him. His idea was a humorous magazine that would not be "for the old lady in Dubuque...
...less than four days the French forces, under sad-eyed, three-star General Raoul Salan, literally leaped on Hoa Binh. The first wave of parachutists came down on a hill overlooking the town, but found that the Communists had already beaten them to the mountains. The second wave of parachutists landed in the tall elephant grass of the Black River valley, and quickly cleared a strip for the Morane-Saulniers (French liaison planes). Two hours later the third wave-half French, half Mung tribesmen-went down, taking with them a complete surgical hospital and staff...
Several answered with enthusiastic, informative letters. Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Rouault and Marc Chagall sent along some of their own writings. Andre Derain's reply was a collector's item, a beautiful letter apparently done with brush or drawing pen. The best came last, from Raoul Dufy, who wrote that he wanted to help and would like a favor in return. He asked Dalton to find a house for him to rent in Tucson, where he could go to treat his arthritis. Dalton got busy and, as requested, kept the news of the trip to himself...