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...Pistols suddenly cracked in the streets-at a Nazi sergeant, at a civilian official of the Occupation Army, at a second Nazi noncom. Marcel Gitton, a former Communist deputy who had recently played ball with the Nazis, was shot dead by a young bicyclist in blue jeans and a beret. Despite death sentences threatened for railway sabotage, roundhouse turntables on the Paris-Brittany main line were blown...
...Madrid last week it was officially reported that Spain had at last concluded an accord with the Vatican and unofficially reported that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had won the right to appoint Spanish bishops (see p. 65). With this feather in its beret, Spain's one party, the Falange Española Tradicionalista, which has fought to make the Spanish Catholic Church, not Roman, but Spanish, next day won an even greater victory: success in the long tug of war between Spain's politicians and soldiers...
Notes on People and Stuff: Al Gilbert in a white turtle-neck sweater and a beret . . . President James Byrant Conant in an exquisitely cut six-button tweed--why is he only the fifth best dressed man? I don't think Max Baer's got anything on him . . . W. Russell Bowie, Jr., President of that delicious Harvard Lampoon, in a palmbeach suit and a steamer rug . . . of course Lucius Beebe came in a trolley...
...huffing, whooshing, lickety-split program piece which has snorted down countless orchestral tracks in the past 16 years. "I love locomotives," says Composer Honegger, "the way other men love women or animals." A solid, massive-browed, bob-haired man, Honegger rode a New Haven locomotive, clad in beret and white overalls, on his last U. S. visit in 1929. Most of the time he lives in Paris. There Honegger shares a home not with a locomotive but a wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny-One-Note, he has written, besides Pacific 231, many a top-notch score, including...
...black uniform and the red beret of the Falange, El Caudillo reviewed 15,000 troops marching through the flag-bedecked but still war-scarred streets. Behind the troops marched column after column of Falangists, led by Franco's brother-in-law Ramon Serrano Suñer, chanting their battle song, Face to the Sun. Fighting planes roared overhead. Authoritarian Spain had been told it had much to be happy about. Special editions of Government-controlled newspapers had shown the contrast between Spain of a year ago and Spain of today. Brother-in-law Serrano, who is also Minister...