Word: duhamel
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...young (34), personable Gerard Cournoyer, law partner and political heir apparent of the late P. J. A. Cardin, who had not been beaten in 35 years. Furthermore, the opposition looked feeble. The Union des Electeurs had put up Roland Corbeil, a Social Crediter. The Progressive Conservative was Etienne Duhamel, who was a candidate only because of the new Progressive Conservative policy of entering a runner, no matter how lame, in every race...
...Institut de France's rickety stairs, to the second-floor conference chamber, hobbled some two dozen venerable French "Immortals"-scholars with "glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
...Duhamel's colleagues put their cocked hats together, chose instead five Old Guardists-Baron Ernest Seillière, philosopher; Jean Tharaud, novelist; René Grousset, orientalist; Octave Aubry, historian; Robert d'Harcourt, specialist on Germany. Duhamel forthwith resigned. "But why?" chided his late associates. Duhamel's favorites, they said, did not want to be elected anyway...
Blond, slim, wavy-haired Father Duhamel was 33, one of ten children. Two of his brothers are in the U.S. armed forces. From boyhood he wanted to be a missionary. In 1939 he got his wish, was sent to the Solomons. One of his brothers suggested that "trouble" was brewing and that the Orient was not a safe place. Said Father Duhamel: "That is what I am going there...
...reported last week. At Ruavatu on war-torn Guadalcanal four Roman Catholic missionaries of the Society of Mary and the Marist Fathers were bayoneted in the throat: Sisters Mary Sulvia of France and Mary Odilia of Italy, Father Henry Engberink of The Netherlands and Massechusetts-born Father Arthur Duhamel. Three days later the Dutch announced that eight more Catholics, including the 70-year-old Bishop of the Kai Islands, north of Australia, had been executed...