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Heartbreak Ridge. The infantryman's ordeal in Korea, as experienced by a green French lieutenant and sharply recorded by Director Jacques Dupont (TIME...
Heartbreak Ridge. The infantryman's ordeal in Korea, as experienced by a green French lieutenant and sharply recorded by Director Jacques Dupont (TIME...
Heartbreak Ridge. The infantryman's ordeal in Korea, as experienced by a green French lieutenant and sharply recorded by Director Jacques Dupont (TIME...
Heartbreak's strength comes partly from Director Jacques Dupont's almost matter-of-fact attention to reinforcing detail: a mustached machine-gunner tensely wetting his lips as he waits for his comrades to advance; the primitive clutter of a front-line trench. It flashes with moments of strange, sunlit beauty that almost belie the shocking truth of man diligently preoccupied with killing man. There are also lighter moments-with Gallic, wine-happy R & Rs (Rest and Recuperators) in Japan. But Director Dupont never strays far from the terrible business that carried him, the French battalion and the tens...
...Eugene duPont, a founder, the first secretary, and later president of the Harvard Club of Delaware, died last December at the age of 81. He served for many years as a director of the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Co. and of the Equitable Trust Co. of Wilmington, Del., and was active in Alumni affairs. In his lifetime, duPont helped to found a Harvard Club endowment fund to finance a freshman scholarship for a student from Delaware...