Word: gagnon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three of the six flag-raisers were killed in the battle for Iwo Jima. After the battle ended, Hayes and the other two survivors were ordered back to the U.S. by President Roosevelt. They were lionized from coast to coast. Rene Gagnon and John Bradley took it in stride, but Ira Hayes, a shy and bewildered Pima Indian, found the hero's role hard to play. Increasingly, he sought escape in drinking, drifted from job to job. Fifteen months ago he was picked up in Chicago, shoeless, shaking and incoherent, and jailed for drunkenness. In 13 years...
...interests of keeping "religious friction at a minimum," the Quebec Board of Censors barred the movie Martin Luther from public exhibition in that province. "We barred the English film Oliver Twist," explained Board Chairman Alexis Gagnon, "because Jewish groups protested that the portrayal of Fagin the Jew might lead people to think of all Jews as being malicious . . . Some Catholics might not get excited about [Martin Luther]. But there are those who might...
...GIRARDE GAGNON Montreal...
...rest of the 11-man team is composed of Bill Proctor of Texas, Everett Parker of Dartmouth, Ken Hirsch of Penn, Ron Gagnon of Providence, Norm Dorsen of Columbia, Don Ross of Yale, and John Horty of Amherst, Dave Atcheson of Stanford, and Lennie Pastolove--a last minute replacement for Derek Bok of Stanford...
...meantime, an uncanny and still unexplained occurrence took place. Alfred Gagnon, a Rhode Island crook, known to police the nation over as a "congenital liar," announced one day that he knew the three planners of the Brink's hold-up. To Massachusetts authorities, he was still a liar. But the Rhode Island Attorney General believed his story, insisted that police here interrogate Gagnon. One of the three masterminds, Gagnon maintained, was a roadhouse proprietor named Carlton O'Brien. Massachusetts officials still scoffed at Gagnon's story. Fifty-six hours later, they found O'Brien--riddled with bullets. The other...