Paris in the Fifties

Paris in the FiftiesBy: Stanley Karnow In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him "le plus parisien des

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In the notebooks

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It was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date

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Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef