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After a publicity campaign that recalled the gilded '20s, northern France's No. 1 beach resort held its first summer opening in six years. The 10,000-odd visitors, including some 2,000 Britons and a scattering of Americans, saw the-Normandy coast playground as they had seen it on picture postcards-tree-shaded streets, restful, gaily decorated buildings and a placid, dull-green...
...CONDEMNED PLAYGROUND (287 pp.) -Cyril Connolly-Macmillan...
...Condemned Playground, Connolly has collected a sheaf of critical studies, parodies, travel notes and pronouncements dating from 1927 to 1943. They appeared in various London magazines, including his own Horizon. Along with his Enemies of Promise (1939) and The Unquiet Grave (1945), these writings are chiefly valuable in that they communicate and defend a love of writing as an art. They show a humane concern and alertness for the dedicated writer's lot in a radio-cinema civilization. They are full of bright glances into the writing process...
...Rome again in 1925, as the first U.S. priest to serve as assistant to the Papal Secretary of State, Spellman became a leader in the $1,000,000 playground system erected in Rome by the Knights of Columbus, startled dignified Italian clerics and Italian urchins by his boxing and skill at tennis...
When the auction began in Denver's ornate State Capitol, Mitchell's well-wishers held their breaths. Then they stirred angrily. The Mountair School District ; wanted the land for a playground; its President, H. B. Jaedke...