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...stirring are Tintin's wholesome feats -fighting saboteurs, thwarting jewelry thieves, foiling dope smugglers-that both King Baudouin and French Novelist Francoise (A Certain Smile) Sagan are listed as fans. Tintin has made a millionaire of Herge (real name: Georges Remi), 51, who was a schoolboy when he started to draw Tintin's precursor as a boy spy during the German occupation of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sweetness & Blight | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...snowy West"), who has spent a third of his waking time in poolrooms, a third in jail, a third in public libraries, and is always shouting "Yes, yes, yes!" to every experience. Dean and Sal and their other buddies-Carlo Marx, the frenzied poet; Ed Dunkel, an amiable cipher; Remi Boncoeur, who has the second loudest laugh in San Francisco-are forever racing cross-country to meet one another. Their frantic reunions are curiously reminiscent of lodge and business conventions, with the same shouts of fellowship, hard drinking, furtive attempts at sexual dalliance-and, after a few days, the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ganser Syndrome | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

During the French Revolution, Rémi Saint-Victor and the Marquise Corinne de Theuriet narrowly missed appointments with the guillotine. Now, after four years' imprisonment, Remi is back at the Polytechnic Institute where he had been Lavoisier's prize pupil; the marquise is the wife of complaisant General Rouvroy and the mistress of scoundrelly Jardinier, a British spy, black-marketeer and confidant of the great. On the night of Talleyrand's great ball for Napoleon and Josephine, the eyes of Rémi and Corinne meet across a crowded room: "He saw her catch her breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Napoleonic Tour | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Donald John Alderson '49 of Milton; Remi Jere Cadoret '49 of Scranton, Pennsylvania; Robert Carswell '49 of Brooklyn, New York; Ernest Frank Chase, Jr. '50 of Cambridge; Melvin Abbott Conant, Jr. '46 of Cambridge; Burton Spencer Dreben '49, of St. Louis; Alan Howard Friedman '49 of Brooklyn, New York York; John Henry Hagan, Jr. '49 of Port Chester, New York; Richard Haven '50 of Welfeboreo, New Hampshire; John William James '50 of Birghton: Richard Paul Janaor '49, of Medford; Edward Ellsworth Jones '49 of Buffalo, New York; Alvin Kahn '49 of Upper Montclair, New Jerscy; Louis Frederick Klein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Chooses Eight Juniors, 30 Graduates | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

Critics found the music (by Remi Gassman) weak and stumbling, but Billy was the brightest thing the dilapidated Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo has done this season. Three Manhattan churchmen also had a word to say about it: they found Billy Sunday sinful. To 38-year-old Choreographer Page, who once toured with Pavlova, the charge was nothing new: her lusty Frankie and Johnny had to be tidied up by New York censors, is still banned in Boston. Says she: "The Bible is filled with sex, especially the Old Testament. And anyway, you can't be very sexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Devil's Due | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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