Janet Flanner, under the pen name of Genêt, began writing her fortnightly "Letter” for The New Yorker in October, 1925, a few months after the magazine was founded.

The following personalities were invited to take part in a round table discussion, held in the spring of 1964 at the American Students’ and Artists’ Center, Paris, concerning Paris “Then”—in the twenties and thirties—and “Now”— in the fifties and sixties: