Word: caen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University students may have an opportunity to aid in the reconstruction of Normandy this summer. Requests for help have come in the form of a letter from the rector of Caen University received yesterday by the International Activities Committee of the Student Council and another from Les Andelys, Nomandy, raising the possibility of setting up a student-run camp there...
This dramatic, unsolicited windfall came from 76-year-old Banker Thomas William Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. It was almost enough to cover the largest item on the list of needed cathedral reconstruction: $520,000 to repair the roof and reface the Caen stone, damaged by centuries of British weather as well as bombs. (The stone was brought from Normandy to rebuild the 6th Century church which had been destroyed by fire...
Manager Conn Smythe, a man who has been known to walk out on the ice and personally "tighten the necktie" of a referee he considered offensive, spent most of last winter recovering from a shrapnel wound he got at Caen. Without the constant goad of Smythe's furious presence, the gentle Leafs finished the season with fewer man-minutes in the penalty box than any other team in the league, ruefully called themselves the "Lady Byng team...
...France, the worst damage had been done in the Cherbourg-Calais-Rouen triangle, during the slow, crunching offensives that set up the U.S. breakthrough. Caen had felt Montgomery's massed artillery, but its nth Century Abbaye-aux-Hommes survived. Rouen Cathedral was the only major French church in partial ruin, but it had not been "nearly so hard-hit as Reims was in World War I. From Saint-Lõ forward, U.S. guns had chopped down church steeples to blast out snipers...
...Monty. Eisenhower has a few words of appraisal on both the strength and weakness of his first lieutenant, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. His holding of the Caen hinge position was "masterly," but the old master was slow at the tape-the offensive launched from Caumont did not jump off soon enough. Emphatically, Eisenhower did not want Monty (or anybody else) as commander of all ground forces; he is sure that he did right in retaining that control himself...