Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author, 20-year-old Raymond Radiguet, a secure place in French literature. Like many another convincingly told work of fiction, Radiguet's novel set many readers wondering how much of fiction was really fact. Nowhere did such speculation reach greater heights than in the Marne River town of Saint-Maur, where Radiguet had lived...
...book, young Radiguet told the story of an adolescent schoolboy in World War I who had fallen in love with a woman three years his senior whose husband was away at the front. The townsfolk of Saint-Maur, reading the story of illicit passion, remembered that the young author himself had been seen often in the company of a local schoolteacher named Alice, a married woman some years older...
...tides has been one of man's pet schemes.* It remained for the power-short French to translate a major scheme into action. Last week Electricité de France, the nationalized power combine, announced that work would start next spring on a $57 million tidal project near Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast...
...Chicago, Actress Jean Arthur, after nine weeks in an $80,000 traveling production of Shaw's Saint Joan, developed a severe virus infection, flew to New York without telling the management before hand. The show closed at a loss to the producers...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...