Article: ART BUCHWALD'S SECOND MEMOIRS A HAPPY BOOK ABOUT A GOLDEN TIME.(Lifestyle)(Review)

Although Paris was founded in 52 B.C., as far as Art Buchwald was concerned nothing really significant happened there until 1948.

That's when Buchwald arrived in town, a 22-year-old ex-Marine who dropped out of the University of Southern California and came to Paris to study on the G.I. Bill. Ostensibly he was there to learn French but skipped most of his classes and majored in Paris instead, hanging out in Left Bank cafes, haunting museums (good places to pick up visiting American girls) and happily savoring the city his idol Ernest Hemingway had called ``a moveable feast.''

Buchwald ended up spending 14 years in Paris, most of them as a columnist for ...

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