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Once a pupil of Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism's founder, Roumeguere had branched off into "psychophysiological" investigations of esthetic principles. In a wood near Gif-sur-Yvette, Dr. Satan had a hut he called "the House of the Good God." It was used for amorous frolics...
...Saturday night Vintenon and Roumeguere went to the hut. Next day François' mistress arrived and the doctor left. Sunday night François took the girl to Paris, then returned to Gif-sur-Yvette. In the village tavern he was seen to eat some food and swallow many pills; then he went off toward the hut. "Mon Dieu!" cried the doctor, when he found the body the next weekend, "there's an enormous Negro lying...
...rose is a rose is a rose") whose literary doubletalk was often as confusing as amusing, onetime medical student, connoisseur of modern art, author (Portraits and Prayers, Wars I Have Seen), playwright (Four Saints in Three Acts, Yes Is for a Very Young Man); of cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her emphasis on the sound, rather than the" sense, of words influenced many a writer. She considered herself the No. 1 figure in contemporary letters, was not shaken by Clifton Fadiman's snug phrase, "the Mamma of Dada." Her parting shot, on leaving the U.S. in 1935 (with...
Donkey Bones. More exciting to French diggers is the art-crammed neolithic cave at Montignac-sur-Vézère. Named after some donkey bones found near the surface, the cave was first explored in 1940 by schoolboys. A few pictures of it leaked out through Vichy (TIME, July 28, 1941), but detailed study had to wait until after the war. Last week scientific investigation was going full speed ahead...
...Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez' own electoral fief. At Ivry the constitution had been carried by 14,705-to-6,783. The majority was 2,000 less than Thorez had hoped for. He turned to the three others-Jacques Duclos, André Marty...