Word: rateurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Littérateur. In Kristiansand, Norway, Carstein Brekke insisted on personally writing his own confession to a murder charge, on the grounds that police versions were much too commonplace and lacked "an intellectual form...
Edouard Herriot, president of the French National Assembly, onetime Premier, off-&-on littérateur, was the latest immortal to be admitted to the French Academy...
...Average American, a Moscow lecture audience learned from lionized Littérateur Ilya Ehrenburg, guest in the U.S. last summer, is: a dreamer, overly self-confident, but a man of good intentions, and "no fool." He is politically immature, but there is hope for him; his mind is growing...
Died. Tess Slesinger (rhymes with messenger), 39, mordantly witty littérateur, whose early, bright promise as an author (The Unpossessed) faded when she became a well-paid cinemadapter (The Good Earth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...letters (The G-String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...