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...est la guerre...
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Bitterly, onetime Vichy Minister Pierre Pucheu had cried, "La comédie est finie!" when an Algiers military court condemned him to death for treason (TIME, March 20). Last week a higher tribunal denied him a new trial. No final clemency came from the somber Chief of State, General Charles de Gaulle, himself under sentence of death by the Vichy Government Pierre Pucheu had served...
Columnist Fisher groups 54-year-old Pundit Lippmann with old (69) G.O.P. Spokesman Mark Sullivan (55 papers, circ. est. 5,000,000) and old (66) Roosevelt-baiting Frank Kent (87 papers, circ. 5,000,000) as having undergone "violent reversal of attitude at periods approximating their middle years and success." Of Sullivan, Fisher says: "The fact that none of the tragedies [he has predicted] ever came to pass . . . has in no way affected [his] status as prophet, analyst," keeper of the Old Guard faith. Of Kent: "A prosperous citizen [vice president of Baltimore's Sunpapers] . . . when [he] assails...
...with the grass in the Yard and the seconds on roast beef, another bright feature of Harvard bites the dust. C'est la guerre it says here...