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...Skeeter Werner's 19-year-old kid brother, Buddy, no American placed better than fifth in the combined scoring. Ahead of the U.S. entrants were such seasoned stars as Austria's Andreas Molterer, Japan's Chiharu Igaya (now a Dartmouth undergraduate) and France's Adrien Duvillard. Dartmouth Alumni Ralph Miller and Brooks Dodge finished fifth and seventh, and to fill out the eight-man U.S. Olympic team, the committee had to reach far back into the pack. Most notable scoring casualty: Dartmouth's Bill Beck, best on the U.S. squad in the 1952 Olympics...
...hard, Monsieur le President, after eight years, to remember these things and to see these men still alive before me." Benoist did not have long to wait. Last week the court sentenced 15 of the accused to death, including a rubber-hose expert, Georges Guicciardini and his son Adrien; three, including another son, null were sentenced to hard labor for life. Stenographer Denise Delfau (who had coolly taken down the testimony of the tortured as they writhed) got 20 years' hard labor...
Good news had become a rare luxury for Pauline Claude and her Adrien. Eight years ago they had both become too old and feeble to hold their jobs any longer as joint caretakers of a rickety apartment house. Soon afterward, Pauline had gone to a permanent bed in the hospital. Adrien himself had become too weak to do even the odd jobs that were left to him. The presents he brought his wife on his regular trips to the hospital often meant going without meals himself. Yet, childless for 43 years of marriage, they both loved children, and their greatest...
...last month, as the Christmas season rolled around again, Adrien Claude stopped by the hospital as usual to see his wife. She lay in bed, staring straight ahead. "I am sorry," said the doctor to Adrien. "She does not know you any more." Adrien stared and stared, then he shuffled away, his legs moving uncertainly, his hands shaking, his face drawn and haggard. The department store manager regretfully allowed him to quit, got a new man to play Santa Claus. Children clambered obediently to his lap, and business went on as usual. But, from time to time, a palsied...
...last week, after his old-age pension had come in, Adrien Claude paid off his last few tiny debts. "I am too old for Christmas," he told a friend as he gave him the few francs he owed. He went up to his chilly garret apartment, put his cat outside the door, sealed the windows tight and put his shoes by the fireplace, where all good French children put their shoes on Christmas Eve, hoping they will be filled by Father Christmas. Then he lit the stove in the airless room, lay down on the bed and waited for death...