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Died. Woop (real name: William Wolpe), 54, German-born French political cartoonist (L'Aurore); of a coronary thrombosis; in Neuilly-sur-Seine...
...over his charges. But he kept returning to the attack against "splenetic-hearted hypocrites and pietistical deadbeats," lashed the Baptist elders as "bipedal brutes...whom an inscrutable Providence has kept out of the penitentiary to ornament the amen-corner," scorned the Baylor faculty as "men who cannot write deer sur without the expenditure of enough nervomuscular energy to raise a cotton crop...
...after the U.S. film called Rock Around the Clock (starring Singer Bill Haley) caught the fancy of Parisian teenagers two years ago. Mac sang his way to fame with his gutty-voiced, absinthe-flavored readings of such items as See You Later, Alligator (T'es pas tombé sur la tête), and You Left in Your Bobby Socks (T'es partie en socquettes). Now Atlantic has recorded the best of Mac on an album entitled Mac-Kac and His French Rock & Roll. The familiar beat is there, but the lyrics provide a startling illustration of just...
Highway 1 threads its improbable way down the California coast from San Francisco to Tijuana. Some hundred miles south of the Golden Gate is Big Sur, California (population negligible), noted for its green pines, redwood resort motels, and Henry Miller, the balding astrologist who writes...
...Sur resturant, paper-bound editions of Nights of Love and Laughter were displayed in a lunch counter wire-stand. "Do you know Henry Miller?" I asked the girl behind the counter...