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...small sons to Europe; the night be fore the Bremen sailed the Josephson's Manhattan apartment caught fire. Josephson saved his family, tried to save a favorite picture by Artist Charles Sheeler, was badly injured, failed to save it. Other books : Galinatius and Other Poems (privately printed), Zola and His Time...
...into the Panama scandals of the '90s. Though falsely accused he lost his seat in parliament, seemed ruined. But another scandal?the Dreyfus case?made him a hero. As editor of L'Aurore he wrote the famed caption "J'Accuse!" above the most potent of many articles by Emile Zola which eventually freed Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus from "Devil Island," where an anti-Semite French government had sent him to rot. The fight to free Dreyfus took six of Clemenceau's and Zola's best years. Last week the grateful captain stumped around to sign M. Clemenceau's visitors book...
...Significance. There is a supposition that Nana, Naturalist Zola's novel, includes some Menken escapades. Nana, one of the realest characters of all fiction, lives and breathes lustily for present-day readers while Adah Menken, who lived just as lustily, pulsates feebly in Author Oursler's sentimental brief. Yet whether or not the "spirit" he discusses is more Oursler than Menken, Author Oursler has succeeded in writing the first book about a U.S. figurine no less famed in her day than Isadora Duncan, Aimee Semple MacPherson, Peggy Hopkins Joyce...
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