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...Frantic, Moreau plotted with her lover to murder a burdensome husband; in The Lovers, Moreau deserted her husband with a spontaneity the film's tone exalted; and in Vie Privec, BB played the stock role recently aired by Julie Christie in Darling, of the poor little movie star who can't have quite everything she covets...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: Viva Maria! | 3/23/1966 | See Source »

Having won the Ivy and national titles for the fifth consecutive year, the top four varsity players vie today for individual honors in the National Intercollegiate Tournament at Annapolis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Top Crimson Racketmen Vie For Honors in Intercollegiates | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Kleist likes the "cool simplicity" and "clean typography" of Scandinavian jackets. Praising East European designs for their "unpretentious charm," he points to the "subtle and original" calligraphy of Czechoslovakian and Hungarian jackets. Poland has no competing publishing firms to vie for public favor with attractive jackets, but the State publishing monopoly nevertheless employs outstanding artists who have made Poland a leader in jacket design. Russian jackets, on the other hand, tend to be "stodgy and conventional." Kleist says that the lack of jackets on Chinese books is probably due to China's paper shortage...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Librarian Immersed in 18th Year As Harvard Book-Jacket Curator | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...persisted. By 1962, when he was 39, Sam Desist wore a major's gold oak leaf and was press officer for the U.S. Army at Orléans in France. Desist also acquired a chic French wife, who bore him two sons, and a taste for la vie as it is not lived in Hepzibah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Stupefying Sam | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...heroin. In Miami Beach, agents picked up Dio, who a few days earlier had flown to New York and lunched with Le Franc. As for Chevalier Desist, he was lodged in the Orléans jail, and faced the prospect of extradition and a different kind of vie back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Stupefying Sam | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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