Word: bretons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alert spotting of petty theft at Newell Boathouse led to a sentence of six months in the House of Correction for Donald J. Breton, 21, of Somerville...
James H. Mathewson '51 spotted the pilferer in the Newell locker room May 2 and jotted down his car license number as he pulled away. Stroke Louis B. McCagg and two managers assisted in identifying Breton at a trial May 14. Breton, who stole about $50, elected to appeal but then changed his plea to guilty when he appeared in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday...
...latest, Each Man's Son, is set in his native Cape Breton Island, which lies off the Nova Scotia mainland like a rugged facsimile of Scotland. It is the story of Daniel Ainslie, the best doctor in town, who discovers in middle age that he is a desperately unhappy man despite work, respect and a good wife. What ails the doctor is simple enough: he wants children, and now it is too late. But since he and his wife have long ago stopped talking about their childlessness, the doctor doesn't recognize his own symptoms. When he steps...
...Russian army in the world, short of some catastrophe I couldn't possibly foresee, that could destroy them before we could do something about it ... evacuate them or go back to a place where they were safe. For example, you could put a dozen American divisions in the Breton peninsula [in France], where they can be covered by our own sea and air power, and the Russians couldn't touch them to save their souls...
Burgeoning with a Breast. Dominguez graduated from the student-artist class the day he met Surrealist Andre Breton in 1935. Breton introduced him to the surrealist round table at the Cafe de la Place Blanche, where, in the course of fevered discussions with Picasso and Paul Eluard, he hit on some weird and wonderful notions. Dominguez rose to prominence in the group by such creations as a bas-relief of a horse inextricably tangled with a bicycle, and a "gramophone" with a forefinger in place of a needle and a female breast for a turntable...