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Jeanne d'Arc, on horseback, accompanied by an army of archers, halberd-bearers and trumpeters, made her annual triumphant entry into La Place Saint Suplice, Paris. This revived pageant of the middle ages is now an intrinsic part of La Fête de Saint Germain...
...damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...
...Saint Germain Fair is one of the oldest in the country and was a regular event in the days of Jeanne d'Arc. It was within recent years revived by the Committee of old Paris and the municipal authorities of the Latin Quarter. Ever since the canonization of Jeanne d'Arc, in 1918, the Fair has been more warmly welcomed than ever by the Parisians...
University of Toronto astronomers, give results for the bending of a stellar ray just grazing the sun's edge, within one-hundredth of a second of arc of Einstein's prediction that they would be deflected 1.75 seconds...
...from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind of receiving instrument, whereby stations can tell the point of the wave's origin to a fraction of a second of arc...