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Everybody's Friend. The Admiral has constantly and glibly shifted his politics to suit his career, always obliging the man in charge-whether Blum or Chautemps or Daladier-just as today he obliges Adolf Hitler. Whenever Governments changed, Darlan usually called in the newspapermen and asked them to forecast him as the next Minister of Marine. He is a great eater and drinker, and on the night France collapsed he luxuriated so heartily and publicly at Bordeaux's Chapon Fin that the next day a number of his brother officers, with an ethical fastidiousness almost Japanese, resigned their...
Impresario of the Forum of the Air is wispy, 37-year-old Theodore Granik, who looks like a younger version of Léon Blum. A lawyer by profession, Granik used to be assistant director of Manhattan's WGBS (now WINS), where he did everything from conducting Biblical readings to reporting prize fights. One of the ideas he cooked up for WGBS was a program known as Law for the Layman. When the station was sold in 1928, he transferred his show to WOR, decided to transform it into a forum after listening to Congressman Celler of New York...
John F. Ambrose '41, Ozone Park; Thomas E. Baker '43, Tonawanda; Nathan Belfer '41, Brooklyn; Howard C. Bennett, Jr. '42, Latham; Richard M. Bloch '43, Rochester; John M. Blum '43, New York; Edward L. Burwell '41, East Aurora; Joseph P. Downer '43, New York; William C. Dutton '43, Rochester; Henry Edelheit '42, Johnson City; David R.V. Golding '41, Brooklyn; Raymond C. Guth '43, Brooklyn; Robert R. Hackford '43, Gardenville; Howard G. Hageman '42, Albany; Peter J. Hearst '43, New York; James Holderbaum '42, Buffalo; Gabriel Jackson '42, Mount Vernon...
...week's end two Jews who had helped rule the land, onetime Premier Léon Blum and onetime Colonial and Interior Minister Georges Mandel, were haled before the judges of Riom as the "war guilt" trials began in earnest...
...week's end Blum and Reynaud were yet to be indicted. Of the others Mandel alone faces a possible sentence of death. He was charged with "treasonable acts" in attempting to cooperate with Great Britain's Duff Cooper and Lord Gort in Morocco in the hope of carrying on a pro-Ally Government after France had officially signed her armistice. The others face possible life imprisonment, with the present Premier, aging Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, holding power of pardon...