Volume 19, Number 2 · August 10, 1972
Living It Out
By Jean Stafford
Piaf
by Simone Berteaut
Harper & Row, 488 pp., $10.00
Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets
by Marcel Haedrich, translated by Charles Lam Markmann
Little, Brown, 277 pp., $8.95
Paris Was Yesterday
by Janet Flanner
Viking, 232 pp., $8.50
At a press conference when she first came to America in 1947, Edith Piaf was asked whom she most wanted to meet and she replied, 'Einstein. And I'm counting on you to get me his phone number.' Her agent was understandably delighted with this piquant sally from his illustrious, unwashed, and untutored gamine. But according to her half sister who writes her vastly too detailed biography, Piaf was not entirely spoofing:
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