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...young and beautiful wife, Francoise Gillot, left him. She took along their two children, aged 6 and 4, explained that she was "sick of living with a monument." The "monument" bestirred itself, and by February produced a series of 180 drawings that may well stand among the richest flowerings in soth century art. The drawings were first put together as a book in Paris. Last week they were available on U.S. book counters as Picasso and the Human Comedy (Harcourt, Brace...
...thing, but that Billy is a tragedy while The Caine Mutiny is a tempest in a large and interesting teapot. Billy Budd carries echoes of the vocabulary of Lincoln and of a time when the great issues were debated at the top of men's voices, in the richest words at their command. And Billy Budd's themes, often thought to be peculiarly modern-the individual and the state, innocence and authority-are far better expressed in the moral, oratorical, Biblical jargon of Melville than in the journeyman prose of Herman Wouk...
France strikes the visitor as the richest land in Europe-and potentially it is. French industry, though backward, unadventuresome and cartelized, is sharing in Europe's boom: steel production is soaring (to almost 11 million tons this year), and the output of French cars is close to half a million a year. France's trading deficit with the rest of the world is still chronic, but between 1953 and 1954 its debts diminished from $203 million to $108 million; last month it actually had a surplus of $43 million...
...half a century, the people of Buganda, richest of four divisions in the British protectorate of Uganda, lived in a state of unrivaled harmony with their white protectors. "Kwini Elizabeth is a very brave woman; truly we love Kwini Elizabeth," sang the soldiers of Buganda when Britain's new Queen was crowned. The Baganda were proud that they alone of African tribes had not been conquered, but had voluntarily asked Britain's protection...
...Harvard, richest of U.S. universities, was getting richer by the minute. Last week it announced that its endowment fund hit a new high of $365,011,619-a jump of $57 million in just one year...