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...afterthought: "Please, would you give me the whole envelope with your name on it? It will be worth lots of money some day." Even in children's minds, Henri Dubois, 37, mathematics teacher at the Technical College for Boys in the French city of Albi, is a famous man. All through the French Pyrenees his name can start bitter argument: he is an unfrocked Roman Catholic priest, excommunicated for heresy. No religious affair for a long time has stirred up Frenchmen as much as the case of Henri Dubois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heretic | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Against Exeter Ken McIntosh and Bob Magowan, numbers one and three, lost in close, five game matches. Middlesex handed the Crimson its loss without dropping a game. Men on both freshman squads were forced to play above their normal positions because Larry Sears and Albi Zimmerman were unable to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team to Meet Engineers | 1/13/1955 | See Source »

...freshman squad, without the services of its 1st, 2nd, and 4th men, Captain Kon McIntosh, Larry Sears, and Albi Zimmerman, beat the Darthmouth freshmen, 3-2. Robin Magowan, George Leness, and Joel Reynolds posted the Crimson victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Loses To Squash Team | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Vadum Fractum et ipse cunuchus nunc tennis nunc fortis, omnes adulescentes maximi animi atque facundissimac libertatis; et deinde noster miles barbatus procellosusque (qui baculum habes) et illc umbraculatus Scotus sive sobrius sive ebrius. Nec non omittendi sunt tu, edax Rolande, nec vos, ancillac pellaces, nec vos, sodales quibus socci albi ct ollac ct peniculus semper gloriac sunt, ncc certe tu, adiutor promptissime, fidelis verborum fons et thesaure. Denique illi imperatori histrico ct prologo qui nomen cst Petro, super quem illi hanc comoediam condiderunt, laudes optimac maximac! Gaudeamus igitur, et semper floreat grex totus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Eunucho Harvardiano | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

Devil into Savior. A more spectacular example of Communist organizing technique is the ancient town of Albi in southwestern France. For centuries the people of Albi have blown fine glassware. To them and their peasant neighbors a year ago a Communist was no more welcome than the Devil himself. But last winter Albi's glass furnaces were cold. The local party unit explained the situation to HQ in Paris. Thorez in person cajoled his Pas-de-Calais miners into producing extra coal for little Albi. It was Tammany Hall with freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Challenger | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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