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...Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: NAPOLEON'S MEMOIRS | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay was found dead at her home in Austerlitz, N.Y. yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pyongyang Falls, Reds Flee North; U.S. Closes Doors to Falangists; Oil Sent to China, Senate Hears | 10/20/1950 | See Source »

...biographical film." A few days before, Walker had reported: "Alice B. Toklas . . . [is] returning here from Paris to buy a home in Oakland, Calif." But Columnist Walker (one of two newspapermen to make the Man of Distinction whiskey ads) was having a spell of undistinction.* In Austerlitz, N.Y., Pulitzer Prize Poetess Millay averred that she had never heard of such a thing. In Paris, the famed bosom friend of the late Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) announced: "I have no intention of going to the States; I am going to stay in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until 1929. That was the year that five Capone gunmen, three dressed like harmless policemen, carried out the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, leaving seven men dead in a North Side garage. It was the Austerlitz of gang killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Al | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...suburbs of Boulogne, Issy and Chatillon. The Germans held a large circular area bounded by the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides, the Gare du Quai-d'Orsay, the Place de la Concorde, the Madeleine and the Grand Palais. They also had strong points at the Gare d'Austerlitz, the Gare du Nord and the Porte d'Orleans. What was holding up the column of General Leclerc was a road block outside Sceaux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Paris Is Free! | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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