Word: duvall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beber, Bernard Arthur, Black, Dwight Priest, Brown, John Wesley, 3d, Curran, Peter Ferguson, Jr., Curran, Robert Louis, Duval, William Carroll, 3d, Ederer, John Hallan, Ferriss, Linoln Stark, Goguen, Norman Paul, Judy, Paul Ray, Kaufman, Harvey, Kimball, John Ward, 3d, Little, James Beach, Lown, Robert George, Macnaughton, John Scott, Mello, Robert Charles (Captain), Perera, Guide Rinaldo, Jr., Pratt, Philip Gorton, Schiff, Gilbert Martin, Stargel, Robert Norman, Toepke, Henry Terrell, Twitchell, Robert Spencer, Albert, J. Brock (Manager...
High jump--1, Mello; 2, Duval (three-way tie). Height--5 feet, 8 inches. Pole vault 1, Mello; 3, Lown. Height--12 feet. Broad jump--1, Mello; 3, P. Curran. Distance--23 feet, 6 7/8 inches. Discus--2, Stargel. Javelin--2, Ferris. Hammer throw--1, Black; 2, R. Curran; 3, Toepke. Distance--146 feet, 9 1/2 inches...
...Jean Duval's extreme plight is not typical in France today, but there still are thousands of French workers who, despite the country's ECA-financed recovery, are only slightly better off than Duval.* It is among their bitter ranks that the Communists win their votes. France's Communist Humanité promptly turned Duval's story into ready political capital. When readers of Le Monde started sending money and gifts to Duval, Humanité snorted: "The workers want no alms . . ." Later it added: "Plumber, take the gifts in money and kind that the grand bourgeois...
Toward the Salt Mines. Le Monde's editors got Duval a better job and a decent home. That, it seemed, was all that was needed to win Duval's soul away from the gospel of hate. When a party delegation called on Comrade Duval and asked him to sign a statement denouncing the "bourgeois" who had helped him, he flatly refused. His wife told the Reds: "We have been living here for years and you have never paid attention to us or done anything for us. And you come only now when somebody else is trying to help...
Among the letters which continued pouring into Le Monde's office was one from a Rumanian refugee in Paris which pointed a sharp political moral to Duval's story. Wrote he: "If our poor plumber had had the 'happiness' to be born in the U.S.S.R. [and had written such a letter as he wrote to Le Monde], he would not even have had time to say his goodbyes to his numerous family before undertaking the hard, long trip toward the salt mines...