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...Duke of Berry and Prince of France, includes 94 full-page illustrations which the Met terms "a whole gallery of medieval paintings." The other, a minute volume (2⅜ in. by 3½ in.), was made to fit a queen's hand, probably that of Jeanne d'Evreux, third wife of France's Charles...
Another Man's Poison. In Evreux, France, Prisoner Pierre Hennocque, having failed at hanging himself, tried to stuff himself to death by swallowing two can openers, a poker broken into ten-pieces, five four-inch nails, an assortment of screws, nuts & bolts, some curtain rings and a shattered wine glass-failed again...
Next day, coming off an escort job near Evreux, Gabby spotted three low-flying Germans, prodded one of them into a steep, twisting climb, chased him into a cloud and out again, shot him down in flames. Thus, with 28 victims, Colonel Gabreski became-for a while, at least...
...first combat flight, last July 28, she led a sweep over Abbeville; the 100th mission was to bomb an airfield at Evreux, near Paris. In between she had taken the targets as they came; power plants, E-boat pens, air bases, all around France up to Holland and back. She still had her original Pratt & Whitney 2,000 h.p. engines. No one had picked any soft spots for the ship, even when she neared her record. Her last two missions were done between dawn and sunset, her last four in 36 hours...
Promising on his word of honor as a gentleman to present Evreux with a photostat of the check, Moe Buchsbaum triumphantly left the court. In Washington next day Treasury officials said that four private contributions toward extinction of War Debts have been received. In each case the foreign government concerned is queried and only after receiving its O. K. does the Treasury wipe off the debt in question the amount of the gift. Biggest contribution thus far was from a Jugoslav who left his entire estate, all of it tied up in property, to vindicate Jugoslavia which has welched...