Word: arrasate
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Education: Scholarship boy who got through to his B.A. by selling sheet music and singing songs (most spc-cessful: Ramona) on the quais of Le Havre; became lycéee (high school) professor of English and Latin at industrial Arras.
Early Politics: Joined Socialist Youth at 15, organized apprentice teachers; became secretary of Teachers Union in 1932 and lost his job. Married Odette Fraigneau, Arras post-office employee and ardent Socialist.
World War II: Mobilized as medical aide, seriously wounded and taken prisoner (in German prison he completed writing a textbook on English Grammar and pronunciation), later was returned to Arras in prisoner exchange. Joined resistance, worked for four years in network called Libre-Nord under nom de guerre Laboule; three...
The studentship was established in 1942 by the Associated Harvard Clubs in memory of a graduate who was killed in World War I. A collateral descendent of John Harvard, de Jersey was killed in action while serving with British troops at Arras in 1917.
But by last month, the details were complete enough to fill an 800-page indictment in the criminal court at Versailles. It told a tragic story of boredom and bankruptcy, of bonds lying loose in a treasury vault at Arras, and of a hero who had found neither peace nor...