Word: bel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sons and Soldiers (by Irwin Shaw; produced by Max Reinhardt, Norman Bel Geddes & Richard Myers) trots out a lot o flossy china for a terribly bad dinner. Laid in 1916, it describes how a young bride for whom childbearing would be dangerous (Geraldine Fitzgerald) dreams the life of her unborn son (Gregroy Peck) all the way to 1942. It is a pretty hackneyed life most of the way - a Tarkington childhood, a Scott Fitzgerald youth, a John Dos Passos coming-of-age ; and it halts on the tragic threshold of war. But the young bride decides to have a child...
...unexplained reasons, the cable to Giraud was delivered two days before De Gaulle received his message. Giraud promptly appointed a new governor for French Guiana. So did De Gaulle when he learned of the revolt. Pending the arrival of Giraud's permanent appointee, Colonel Albert Jean Paul le Bel (No. 2 man of the Giraud mission in Washington) was dispatched to take temporary charge. De Gaulle also named a temporary appointee, Colonel Pierre de Chevigné, who was also in Washington. Colonel le Bel got instant cooperation from the State Department (and the use of a U.S. Army transport...
Last week Colonel le Bel arrived in French Guiana. Frenchmen and natives greeted him with cries of "Vive De Gaulle, Vive Giraud...
Buildings that look like barns-which many people consider very beautiful-have made the reputation of Pietro Bel-luschi, architect of Portland, Ore. This week for the first time he plans to hang out his own shingle. He will hang it on the same Jefferson Street house (under Portland's Vista ''Suicide" Bridge), long occupied by the defunct firm of which he had been a member (A. E. Doyle & Associate...
...Belém buzzed with speculation. The plane may have been the President's-or it may not have...