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Even after that, the military life held a fascination for Fred, and in 1951 it offered him his most memorable role: Surgeon Lieut. Joseph Cyr of the Royal Canadian Navy. Demara's medical training consisted of a basic course in the U.S. Navy's hospital school, ten months as a hospital orderly in Boston, amplified by voracious reading of medical texts. Nevertheless, when assigned to Korean waters aboard the destroyer Cayuga, he performed such prodigies of battle surgery -an emergency amputation, the extraction of a bullet from the heart sac itself -that Cyr's story was published...
...Naked and the Dead, in which Stripper Lili St. Cyr gets about halfway through her act before the cops raid the joint. (Article V, Section 1: "Dances suggesting sexual actions are . . . obscene...
...root of Bigeard's troubles lay the publicity that his military triumphs had won for him. Had the tall, sinewy colonel been a graduate of St. Cyr (France's West Point), his superiors might have put up with him. But they begrudged such acclaim to a "jumped-up ranker" who perennially poked fun at "generals with middle-aged spread...
Military Career: Joined the French army under the mandate, educated at France's famed St. Cyr. Promoted by the Vichy French to command of the Lebanese battalion of the French Army of the Levant, he was named chief of independent Lebanon's new army in 1945, has built it into a compact, disciplined force under firm control...
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...