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...recognition in your magazine [TIME, April 8]. However, you didn't quite do right by AFN. You stated that AFN established stations in Le Havre and Paris for the entertainment of the G.I.s. This is very true, but we also had stations in Marseilles, Nice, Dijon, Nancy, Reims, Biarritz, and Munich, Berlin, Bremen, Kassel and Frankfurt in Germany. These -Svengali, the villain-hypnotist; by Trilby's author and illustrator, George Du Maurier. fixed or permanent stations were also augmented by mobile stations with the ist, 7th, gth and isth Field Armies. We would have had one with General...
...second term, Bull even had its old school tie (royal blue with embroidered gold bull's head). Last week, at graduation, the Army announced that there would be no third term: men could no longer be spared from depleted ETO forces. Also closing: the G.I. paradise, Biarritz American University and the G.I. Swiss University...
Thus, last summer, the Army took its deepest plunge into higher education. It has worked out swimmingly. Biarritz American University, a full-fledged university set amid the splendors of the fashionable Cote d'Argent, has already graduated an eight-week class of 4,000, is now schooling 4,000 more. They are probably the most contented G.l.s in Europe...
...Biarritz townspeople were at first resentful of the G.I. occupation of loo-odd of their famed hotels and villas, now invite students to dinner. The roulette wheels were stored away at the famed Casino, which became a hushed library supervised by a whispering ex-artilleryman. A prankish billeting officer quartered ten mild professors in what had once been the fanciest whorehouse in town. The professors were bothered almost nightly by old customers...
...cuts are not many. One G.I. describes Biarritz University as "the best break I've ever had in the Army." By the end of the present semester, most of the homeward-bound G.I.s for whom it was intended will be "in the pipeline" towards home, and B.A.U. is scheduled to close its ornate doors. Last week its Army boss, Brigadier General Paul W. Thompson, flew from Europe to Washington to plead that it be kept open for U.S. occupation troops in Europe. Even if it meant two months off from their soldiering, he said, it would be worth...