Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blaze of the Sun, by Jean Hougron (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If all the Frenchmen in Indo-China behaved more or less like the ones in this novel, no wonder they lost the war. Amid all the offensives and ambushes, Novelist Hougron's characters worry chiefly about who goes to bed with whom-or more particularly, with My-Diem, a shapely Annamite who used to be a Communist agent, married a French colonial official and, before the book is over, earns herself one of the hottest spots in the Buddhist hell by committing adultery with yet another Frenchman. Along...
Some goods new to military technology were added to the embargo list-e.g., titanium-processing machinery (titanium is the new "wonder metal" for airplane jet engines...
...more powerful sculptor would probably not have excited such diverse reactions. Nor would one less powerful, since lesser men strive for the obvious, which Marcks scorns. His art. like that of the ancient Greeks, chiefly celebrates the wonder and joy of being alive, of being able to stand...
Married. Gloria Grahame, blonde (The Bad and the Beautiful] cinemadventuress, 25; and radio-TV's Boy Wonder Cy Howard, 38 (My Friend Irma, Life with Luigi); she for the third time, he for the second; under an olive tree in the patio of his Beverly Hills home...
...struck all of a heap by the revelation, it is for a disillusioned schoolboy's reason, not a scandalized adult's. "How could she have sunk so low? To be what we [schoolboys] all. despised more than anything-soft, soppy . . . a subject for furtive giggling . . . No wonder she wanted it kept secret...