Word: croix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author. Born in South Bethlehem, Pa., the son of a vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp., Russell Wheeler ("Mitch") Davenport wrote poetry for ten years before entering journalism, wrote none for 14 years afterwards. He went to Thacher School in California, twice won the Croix de guerre in World War I. Back in the U.S. he went to Yale, where he published poems in the Lit. He is married to Novelist Marcia Davenport (The Valley of Decision), daughter of the late soprano Alma Gluck...
...Jewish quarter around the rue Ste.-Croix de la Bretonnerie, the Germans had set up a ghetto. Only 10,000 of 100,000 Jews who used to live there still remained. They straggled out last week to meet American visitors. Broken by hunger, torture, humiliation, the yellow star of David newly torn from their sleeves, they were Paris' most sadly joyous beings...
...cracked continuously and often brutally about the wound chevron in the last war, and of course every Croix de Guerre was "found in a case of French monkey meat," etc., etc. But we meant no disrespect for the chevron or the Croix, and no editors attempted to interpret our gags for the home folks, who were far more interested in what we did than in what we said or thought...
...famed Meadow Brook Club's championship team. He also boxed and swam, played tennis, hockey, football and golf. At St. Paul's School he was president of his class. He left school at 17 to join World War I's famed Lafayette Escadrille. He won the Croix de Guerre, was shot down and captured, escaped by jumping from a moving train, walked for eight nights till he reached Switzerland...
...last week told how the Nazis fell first on the slower of two westbound convoys. Night & day the waddling cargo ships and their escorts were under attack or threat of attack. According to the survivors, at least ten vessels were sunk. One of them was the Canadian destroyer St. Croix, formerly the U.S.S. McCook. The St. Croix was picking up the crews of other luckless vessels when a torpedo hit her. She went down in a small-size holocaust, taking all but one of her 147-man crew...