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...Arriving in Manhattan for a two-month U.S. tour, France's brightest literary prodigy, winsome Novelist null (Bonjour Tristesse-TIME, Feb. 14) Sagan, 19, breakfasted (on tea and soda crackers) with reporters who heard how Bonjour, a bestseller in both France and the U.S., was written. Recalled Françoise: "I was eliminated from the Sorbonne in the summer of 1953 for skipping all my classes. So, having nothing else to do, I sat in cafes and bars around the Sorbonne and wrote the book in a month." Asked how her daddy, a happily married Paris manufacturer, felt about...
...books are written in the first person and carry with them the tang and immediacy of confessions. France's most successful novel last year was Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), which will be published in the U.S. this month. In one season its talented, 18-year-old author, Francoise Sagan, became a celebrity, and her book's haunting title became part of the French language. Author Sagan's lucid young heroine leads a freewheeling existence on the Riviera with her freewheeling father, until one of his mistresses tries to marry him. The girl's intrigues split...
...elections of officers for the spring term Tuesday night, the Harvard Liberal Union chose Ernest Left '47 of Adams House as president, and Thomas H. Canifield '48 as vice-president. Eli J. Sagan '48 of Lowell and Kenneth J. Coffield '48 of Adams were picked as treasurer and secretary, respectively, while Edward M. Davidson of Adams won the position of member-at-large...
Died. Marie Pierre Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Sagan, fifth Duke of Talleyrand, 78, husband of Railway Heiress Anna Gould; of a heart attack; in Paris. The Duke married Heiress Gould in 1908 after she had been divorced from his cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. Her father, Jay Gould, who bequeathed her $80,000,000, opposed their marriage...
Maedchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan), last spring's most discussed European cinema, was rejected by the New York State Board of Censors on the ground that it too intimately explored female adolescence. U. S. sponsors finally convinced the censors it was a story of new Germany v. old Germany. They added English subtitles and presented...