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...story, "A Life in Books Recalled," misspelled the name of an author quoted in the piece. Her name is Anne Bernays, not Anne Bernay...
...spite of its hackneyed theme and its essentially unoriginal main character, Short Pleasures manages to be an entertaining book. Miss Bernay's breezy, racy style and several of her other character portrayals suggest that she is capable of writing a much better book than the framework of Short Pleasures permits...
...London and Toronto, he said, he had won all sorts of prizes, spreading his talents to include not only rifles but pistols. The local girls flung themselves at his feet, and after a time, Roger married one of the richest of them and moved to the bigger town of Bernay. There the local shooting club welcomed him with open arms and were only slightly put out when Roger missed the target completely at his first shoot. "I suppose," said one member, "that he didn't want to embarrass us." Soon afterward Roger resigned, to assume the presidency of what...
...Monsieur le Maire," protested the great hero modestly, "this is really too much honor . . ." But the mayor and all the citizens of Bernay who gathered in the town hall on that broiling day of August 1948 laughed aside the protest with proud, tolerant smiles. Too much honor? For Roger Touchard, the champion marksman of two continents, the local boy who had made good? Too much? "Ah, tell me, Touchard," said one of the local dignitaries, "what would you say to a red ribbon in your coat, the Cross of the Legion of Honor? What would you say to that...
Ticker-Tape Triumph. Two years ago Roger left Bernay once more-bound, he said, for some great shooting matches in Chicago and New York. He returned with a lyric description of the ticker-tape reception accorded him on New York's lower Broadway. "Never," he said, "shall I forget that delirious welcome," and the applause that greeted the words in Bernay was deafening. After that, it was a cinch. On Sept. 15, 1954, officials announced that "for 25 years' activity in the field of sport," Roger Touchard had been named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
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