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...chugged along, a half -stride behind the long-striding king of U.S. milers, Les MacMitchell. The 150-lb. Frenchman ran with feather-footed ease, his arms high, no pumping. He arranged to have fractional times called in French - 2:12.4 at the half, tantalizingly slow for Madison Square Garden's fast track. Suddenly, with the finish almost in sight, Marcel ran out of gas, wound up third, 12 yards back of MacMitchell. Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Feather-Footed Frenchman | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...their first lesson, he bluntly recommended the death sentence for all of Nürnberg's defendants. The 20 stared at the angry Frenchman, their faces suddenly sagging and grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Vengeance, French | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

André Siegfried, Frenchman-of-letters whose America Comes of Age sold nicely in the late '203, at a lecture in Paris announced yet again that the U.S. was coming of age. He also noted, as he had before the depression, "an atmosphere of prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...Laurent's greatest political assets is the fact that he is English-speaking Canada's conception of the perfect French Canadian. Handsome, dapper, with close-cropped hair that has turned from black to grey since he entered the Cabinet, he looks like a storybook Frenchman. Yet not even the most suspicious outsider can find in him the slightest trace of Quebec provincialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: No. 2 Man | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...year of victory and threatening peace, the poets were not up to much. The biggest news was made by two soldier-poets, Frenchman Louis Aragon, and Ser geant Karl Shapiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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