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...During Vichy days he secretly trained a corps of 10,000 Berber tribesmen, and later led them through Italy, France and Germany. After the war, Guillaume, as military attaché in Moscow, took a close look at Russian might, then became French commander in Germany. He has the dash that the French like in their generals: fellow officers remember him, wrapped in his Moroccan djellaba, reciting Dante in Rome, singing a song of Schubert's as he crossed the Rhine...
...time, of far greater import. But perhaps in the long run it is only right that the Centre game should stand out above all as the "darkest hour" for the Crimson as a national power. When Bo McMillan scored the game's only touchdown on a 32 yard dash, he ended more than a five-year streak which included a Rose Bowl victory. He had unwittingly written finis to the scourge of the nation's gridirons. Harvard was to rise to the top again at times as it did against Yale the same year; but never to the dizzy heights...
...given for any feats as a runner, though the man who will receive it once held the all-time Harvard record for the quarter-mile dash...
Last week, on one day alone, a total of 21 Iron Curtain refugees made the desperate dash to freedom. They came from various levels and followed divergent paths. One was a teen-age girl, a refugee from child-labor gangs in Hungary's Communist coal mines. One-Yugoslav airline Chief Pilot Milivoje Arsenijevic-had left a good job and a comfortable apartment in Belgrade. Some were driven by despair, some by disillusion, some by disgust. Some merely saw a chance and grabbed it. All had a goal in common. They gave it no name, but it lay just across...
Sensible Bernard Clark, meanwhile, has been making hay. After giving Ethel a gay spree at the "Gaierty Hotel," he proposes to her outside Windsor Castle. "If you say no," he warns, "I shall perforce dash my body to the brink of yon muddy river." But Ethel gladly accepts. "You are to me like a Heathen god," she tells Bernard. He kisses her and she falls in a swoon...