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August 23, 1969

The New Yorker cover for August 23, 1969

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profiles

LE MENEUR DE JEU

Penelope Gilliatt

PROFILE of the 75-year-old French movie maker, Jean Renoir.

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Without Whose Unfailing Encouragement

H. F. Ellis