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Outstanding for the Jayvees were Gifford in the backfield and center Bill La Croix in the line. La Croix was elected captain of the team for the remainder of the season at a meeting held immediately prior to the game...
...Harvard lineup: le Hugh Lawrence, It Tom Broidrick, lg Lee Sosman, c Bill La Croix, rg Henry Geethals, rt Bill Ellis, re Roger Tatton, qb Thad Strezynski, lhb Caleb Loring, rhb Ha Tine, fb Brooks Heath...
...release General Juin from a German prison camp. Fellow officers have often noted his totalitarian sympathies. Suave, dark General Jean Josèphe Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny became commander of Vichy's Tunisian troops. His name has often been linked with the pre-war Croix de Feu (fascists) and Cagoulards (monarchist terrorists). To command the French Mediterranean Fleet, Vichy appointed young Admiral Gabriel Adrien Josèphe Paul Auphan, British-hating favorite of Admiral Darlan, brother of an editor of the British-hating Action Fran...
Even among the exuberant political beards of France, the beard of Socialist René Marx Dormoy was something special. Its grizzled fullness was a godsend to cartoonists in the days of the Popular Front, when Dormoy as Minister of the Interior was making things hot for the Croix de Feu and the Cagoulards (Hooded Ones), a reactionary Gallic Ku Klux Klan...
...active duty last week was Colonel Hamilton Fish Jr.. of the U.S. Army's Specialist Reserve.* Congressman Fish helped to organize a Negro regiment (the crack 15th Infantry, now the 369111 Coast Artillery) during World War I, served in it as a captain, and won the Croix de guerre. As a procurement officer in the Specialist Reserve, Colonel Fish will have more use for a pencil than for a gun, will presumably return to his loud duty in the U.S. House of Representatives after his Army month is over. While he is an active officer, he will have...