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...doing political intelligence among the French underground, or "maquis," Guerard remained in newly-liberated towns and tried to set up the newspapers, the civil government, and occasionally even the water supply. He thinks that he must have talked with over a thousand young members of the Resistance in a four-month period as he took his own notes on these underground maquisards. "Much of my work was done in bars at the army's expense," he recalls. There he came in contact with all types of people--the tough and the disabled, intellectuals and workers, Communists and Catholics...
...newscaster Alan Jackson reported that Martin E. Malia, assistant professor of History and research fellow in the Russian Research Center, has already broken precedent after precedent in his four-month stay in the Soviet Union...
When their song was over, the three stars reluctantly moved out of conjunction. Fournier will fly to Switzerland, then on to a Scandinavian tour; Solomon heads for performances in South Africa, Israel and the Continent, Francescatti for a four-month rest in the Berkshires. Could they ever get together again? Possibly their schedules will permit...
OLDSMOBILE, which wound up 1953 in seventh place in the auto industry, has been rocketing ahead with its 1954 models, will probably nudge Plymouth out of fourth. Though Plymouth still leads in the four-month totals (138,996 v. 136,748), Olds outproduced it by 6,417 units in April, will probably be right behind Buick again in May, thus giving G.M. three of the four top makes...
Producer Wanger's interest in prison reform grew out of personal experience: in 1952 he served 98 days of a four-month sentence in Los Angeles County Honor Farm for shooting an actor's agent whom Wanger suspected of having an unprofessional interest in Mrs. Wanger (Cinemactress Joan Bennett). His life in prison jolted him into a strong, new social consciousness...