Word: cyr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life. Born May 5, 1908 at Chalons-sur-Marne, the son of an artillery officer. Graduated from Saint-Cyr. France's West Point, in 1930, was posted to the colonial infantry in French Equatorial Africa...
Withering Knighthood. In Buffalo, Judge Michael Zimmer fined Store Manager Eugene Cyr $50 for slapping a woman with "too much force," although he agreed there was "no doubt some provocation" when the woman called him a "stupid jerk...
...night at Northeastern University in Boston for a year, then joined another Roman Catholic order, the Brothers of Christian Instruction, in Maine. The brothers warmly welcomed such an esteemed professional as "Dr. Hamann." dubbed him Brother John. As Brother John, he met a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr, helped Cyr treat a member of the brotherhood for rheumatoid arthritis (bee venom, suggested Ferdinand with professional aplomb...
Demara so admired young Dr. Cyr that he borrowed Cyr's name and credentials, was commissioned in the Canadian navy as a surgeon. He performed unnumbered minor operations-and once, with Mitty-like sureness, he presided over a complicated operation on a soldier who had been wounded near the heart. The operation was a huge success-and so was "Dr. Cyr." The publicity that followed this achievement flushed out the real Cyr, and Ferdinand was quietly sacked by the navy...
Between drafty exposures at an airy London nightspot, Minnesota-born Stripper Lili St. Cyr cited another visitor to Britain, Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe, as an unchic example of how not to dress when not in professional dishabille. Strange as it seems, Lili deplored Marilyn's strains at the seams: "I do wish that she would dress better. I don't think it's nice to show too much. It's embarrassing for one's escort...