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...Washington, George Washington's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Probably made for John's grandson Robert, the panels had stayed in the Washington 16th century Sulgrave Manor for almost 300 years, but recently turned up as kitchen windows in the Northamptonshire home of Littérateur Sacheverell Sitwell, who put them up for auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mementos for Americans | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Paris, Littérateur André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Footloose | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...Flinching. In his 60s Smith was once rummaging through a bookstore when he met a clerk who shared his enthusiasm for the writings of 17th Century Jeremy Taylor. Bound by this quirk of taste, the old littérateur and the young clerk became close friends. After 17 years as Smith's apprentice and companion, that clerk, Robert Gathorne-Hardy, has written a fascinating memoir of his master's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man of Trivia | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Edouard Herriot, president of the French National Assembly, onetime Premier, off-&-on littérateur, was the latest immortal to be admitted to the French Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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