Biographical data on NAEB leadership, 1953-1965 (1953-1965)

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Madame Magdeleine Paz, one of France 8 s outstanding women writers and radio producers, paid an official visit to the headquarters of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, Monday and Tuesday o She came to Urbana-Chanpalgn via Atlanta where last week she addressed the NAEB National Convention, Madame Paz (nee Legendre) was born near Paris in the famous tt Ile de France* 1 province, the daughter of a high government official whose family had 'resided in that area for several generations. College education with post-graduate degrees. One son (living in Algeria, director of a telephone and telegraph cable company); two grandchildren, Knight of the Legion of Honor, She is the author of several *best seller w novels, nearly all of which have been translated and published in eight or nine languages (including English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Greek and Japanese), Two early ones were pub¬ lished in the United States: Woman and You (T. Seltzer, New York, 1920 and 1921 respects/ely), Has also written travsl books, critical essays, poetry, social studies and short-stories, Madame Paz has translated fifteen English, American and German novels (including works by John Steinbeck, Helen Grace Carlisle, Oliver LaFarge* Katherine Brody, Storm Jameson, Andreas Latzko, Stefan Eueig, etc./* Madame Paz has given hundreds of lectures on literary topics, in France and abroad. She was literary editor of a French daily from 1930 to 1940, Book reviewer, drama critic, movie critic; has written feature stories on France, North Africa, Greece, etc, (In all, several thousand articles in French newspapers and French and foreigft magazines.) In radio, she was a member of the Superior Council of The French Broadcasting System (Consell Superleur de la Radlodlffusion Francaise), from 193& to 19^0; director of Women*s Programs at RdF,