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...Colin Ian McIntyre '51, of Lowell and Buenos Aires was elected captain for the Bermuda trip by rugby squad members last night. McIntyre is also president of the ruggers...
...hours later, guest of honor at a publisher's reception, he was on his way through an amazing series of adventures. Colin, who would have found it hard to get into the editor's office of Figaro on Monday, wrote Figaro's front-page literary essay on Wednesday. A short story that Colin could not place on Monday appeared Thursday in Les Nouvelles Littéraires. By Saturday his novel was being serialized in France-Dimanche, a sensational weekly. All week the presses roared, boosting the total printing of his book (a modest story about a group...
...solemnly down on the surging crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest (67) member of the academy, who, by tradition, must announce the winner. Slowly Mac Orlan came down the steps, pushed his way to the microphone. Said he: "The Prix Goncourt for 1950 goes to Paul Colin for his novel Les jeux sauvages...
There was silence, then someone yelled: "Who the hell is Paul Colin...
...that moment sharing a chicken luncheon with his father and father-in-law in a working-class apartment in the dusty, dirty Batignolles district above the Gare St. Lazare, Paul Colin was not aware that he had captured the year's literary jackpot. Novelist Colin, a thin, retiring young man, was living on unemployment relief...