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 "... The Salem family had escaped from Paris ahead of the Nazis in World War II, going first to Canada and then to Boston, where the father, Raphael, a banker in Paris with a doctorate in mathematics, landed a teaching post at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and where the eternally grateful son Daniel won a scholarship to Harvard. He graduated at the top of the class of '44 at 18 and enlisted in the Free French Forces.
After the war, he returned to the States and to Harvard and, after earning an M.A. in math and philosophy, he landed a position with Lazard Freres and served there until he joined Conde Nast in the autumn of 1950. He became the assistant to the then president, Iva S.V. Patcevitch, before giving up his spot in 1960 to return to Paris for family reasons. There he worked for an investment banker until 1964, when he got a call from the late Sam Newhouse, the new Conde Nast owner..."
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When war came, Daniel's father went to London as a financial adviser to Jean Monnet in France's alliance with Britain. At the fall of France, Raphael stayed in London, instructing his wife and three children to steal by night to a safe house in south-west France to catch the last boat out of Bordeaux to Southampton. Raphael's mother, sister and his nephew were all arrested, deported and died in Nazi concentration camps.
From Britain, however, Raphael's reunited family were able to move first to Canada and then the US, where Raphael got a job teaching at MIT. Daniel started at Harvard, one of the youngest undergraduates there ever. At 18, to the shock of his parents, he joined the free French forces, trained in England and took part in the invasion of southern France in 1944."
Laurent Laloup le samedi 28 janvier 2023 Contribution au livre ouvert de Daniel Laurent Manuel Salem | |
