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Last week, the flags on all French public buildings hung at half-mast, and thousands paraded past the general's bier. But proudly, as befitted the man they honored, the French caretaker cabinet met in special session to confer on Jean de Lattre the title: Marshal of France...
...Martin Niemoller, head of the German Evangelical Church in Hesse, World War I U-boat captain, onetime Hitler follower and then for eight years Hitler's personal prisoner. Niemöller's mission to Moscow was clothed in strictly clerical garb. He simply wanted, he said, to confer with leaders of Russia's Orthodox Church "on matters of relations with Christians in Russia...
...meeting, the N.C.A.A. and the American Football Coaches Association (Lloyd Jordan, prop.). The former group will discuss spring football practice--probable result: allowing only 20 sessions per spring. The later group will discuss the free substitution rule--probable result: much talk, no change. But the N.C.A.A. will also confer, hotly and heavily, on bowls and recruiting...
Several hundred seniors will confer with 300 alumni scattered throughout the country during Christmas vacation on post-graduation job prospects, Alexander Clark, assistant director of Student Placement, said yesterday...
...special committee appointed by the Board of Overseers begins today to consider plans for a College theatre. Theatre critic John Mason Brown '23, chairman of the group, will confer with President Conant this morning before opening the first meeting of the panel of experts whose of it is to make recommendations for the Board...