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Death Revealed. St.-John Perse, 88, Nobel-prize winning poet who was also a leading diplomat in France for more than 20 years under the name Alexis Leger; in Giens, France. Born on Saint-Léger les Feuilles, an island in the Caribbean owned by his aristocratic family, Leger published his first volume of poetry in 1910, four years before joining the French foreign service. Dark-eyed, mustachioed Leger served as secretary of the French embassy in Peking and later as adviser to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before becoming the highest permanent official at the Quai d'Orsay...
...cardinals, 80 bishops, 700 priests, 1,300 nuns and thousands of other Americans on charter tours descended on Rome last week for a singular event in Catholic history. Over the centuries, their church had designated thousands of saints, including 22 from Uganda, 20 from Japan, and 40 from England, but never had a native-born citizen of the U.S. been canonized.* Now the church was to remedy that as Pope Paul VI infallibly proclaimed Mother Elizabeth Seton (TIME, Dec. 23) a saint who should be venerated "in the company of saints with pious devotion...
...Orleans Saint Quarterback Archie Manning, out 4 to 6 weeks with a chipped elbow...
Trying to disentangle the woman, who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804, from the legendary creature known as George Sand could easily have proved a biographer's undoing. But Curtis Gate, whose previous work includes a biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, approaches the task with both the patience of a scholar and the relish of a storyteller. He manages to puncture the myth without deflating the life. From the moment she arrived in Paris in 1831, a 26-year-old berrichonne provincial fleeing from her small-spirited husband, rumor began placing her in bed with almost...
Morocco Inspired. Yves Saint Laurent celebrated détente with a Russian look: three-quarter-length suede coats bordered in mink, worn over a sum velvet skirt and a printed cossack blouse in crepe de Chine, all topped by a huge matching mink toque. Another Y.S.L. standout was a silk poplin pelisse lined and trimmed in fisher, over a tweed suit with a tweedy patterned crepe de Chine blouse. For evening he had many floating mousselines, including several djellabas that were probably inspired by Saint Laurent's trips to Morocco, where he has a house...