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Last week part of that version unexpectedly appeared. Pirated excerpts were printed in the newspaper France-Soir -two months ahead of the book's scheduled publication date. Malraux's publisher, Gallimard, duly registered its consternation at the leak, but the 3,500 words that were made public were only a teasing glimpse of what was to come...
...elected president of the debating society on the spot. In Rome, where the family mystique is known as Kennedysmo, cab drivers cheered him and the paparazzi clicked their shutters as if Sophia were the target. In Paris he placed a bouquet on Marshal Alphonse Juin's coffin. France Soir captioned its picture: "The young lion of politics before the body of the old soldier." The newspaper also observed that the object of Kennedy's visit was "the White House-in 1972." That was all right with French voters. At a Picasso exhibit in the Grand Palais one young...
...when she is not singing or acting, she is in great demand as a model. And she gets nearly as much press as De Gaulle: 20 French magazines have put her on their covers, and she is literally updated every day in France-Soir. When her tune Hi Pals! became a hit, a hungry publisher turned the unlikely name into the title of a magazine - which three years later sells nearly 1,500,000 copies a month...
...convivial chatter before lights-out. Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul. There, over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soirées, teaching a bit of Russian or Arabic to his fellow inmates, discussing world affairs, or philosophizing on the art of espionage. On that rainy night, the soirée was canceled: sawed bars and a nylon ladder attested to the fact that Blake was associating more freely outside...
...past two weeks, leading an entourage that included her aunt as a chaperon, her accompanists, a reporter for France Soir and a camera crew filming her every movement for a French TV documentary, Mireille hopscotched from Paris to Manhattan to Dallas to Hollywood, where she signed substantial contracts for two movies and several appearances on the Danny Kaye and Andy Williams TV shows. Then she rushed back to France to embark on a tour in which she will-sing 46 concerts in 46 days, at $5,000 per performance. Under the stern scrutiny of France's leading impresario, Johnny...