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Since Nov. 12, 1942, some 140 American diplomats, newspapermen and relief workers formerly accredited to Marshal Pétain's Vichy Government have been interned at Lourdes, waiting for negotiations for their exchange to be completed. This week the State Department was advised that Germany had thrown a cordon of 55 troops around the group, was preparing to evacuate them all to Germany. Exchange negotiations were being taken over by the Reich "for its own purposes." Angrily the State Department protested this "autocratic action." Last message from the group, received two months ago, said they were bored, anxious, otherwise...
Born. To Betty Cordon Saalfield, 19, Manhattan's "Deb No. 1" of 1941; and Lieut. Robert Sutton Saalfield Jr., 22: a son, 6 Ib.; at Fort...
...order to skip the receiving line. It took six minutes of elbowing to get through the mob outside, and some swivel-hipped open field running to reach the dance floor. Four times he tried to cut, only to be tripped thrice and kicked once before he could penetrate the cordon of hopefuls surrounding the dancers...
...ambulances"-hardware trucks and station wagons-with a driver and four first-aiders each, were parked behind the post office-quietly, not to alarm the public. Just in case the public did get alarmed, 50 auxiliary police ringed the hotel to keep unauthorized people out. Coast Guardsmen formed a cordon around the wharf, detoured mainstreet traffic that might interfere with operations...
Marriage Revealed. Betty Green Cordon, 19, Manhattan's "Deb No. 1" of 1941; and Private Robert Sutton Sallfield Jr., of Akron, Ohio last March...