Word: bretonneux
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...guide who's determined to make you see what it looks like in sunlight. In short takes "like scenes in a film," Carlyon plunges from the tranquil present to the midst of battle and back. "All is quiet, and the place speaks to you," he writes at Villers-Bretonneux. "You can hear the chatter of machine guns and the shouts of men on the ground." He doesn't see himself as a military historian. "I'm telling a story," he says. But "I don't go beyond the facts." Digging like an archaeologist through mountains of material?histories, news reports...
Untapped Spring. Perrier's thirst is not yet satisfied. It is now building ultramodern bottling plants to turn out even more mineral water: one at Thonon on Lake Geneva and the other at Montigny-le-Bretonneux, 15 miles from Paris, where a subterranean spring is almost directly beneath the plant...
Best Guarantee. Next morning, on the station platform, the Lebruns said good-by to their guests in the name of France. Then the royal train, followed by the Presidential train, steamed off to what was called the "Australian soil" of the cemetery at Villers-Bretonneux, where 2,500 Australian soldiers lie buried. In dedicating a handsome new Australian Memorial, the King showed himself in better voice than at any time since he took the Throne, the nervous tone of his halting speech having almost vanished, and President Lebrun fervently responded, "It moves me to salute, Your Majesty, your affirmation that...
King George VI (Fri. 8:3O a.m., NBC-Red) unveils Australian War Memorial at Villers Bretonneux, France, exchanges speeches with President Lebrun...
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