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General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattrede Tassigny was a fighting hero in two wars against Germany. He was tall, dark, gallant with the ladies. To his soldiers he was the model of military men. He was also a patriot...
...this was true, it helped to explain why De Lattre de Tassigny, apparently guilty of mutiny, was charged with "abandoning his post." Last week at a secret trial in Lyon he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment (or for the "duration"). Imprisoned, he could still consider himself in gallant company. Youthful Prince Louis Napoleon, Bonapartist pretender, was arrested last week while trying to run the border into Spain...
...Liberal education" is a fighting phrase nowadays. "In the current discussions between the Armed Forces and the educators on the conversion of colleges to the war effort we have a vague picture of a group of horn-rimmed but humane deans in a gallant losing struggle against a tight-fisted clique of electronicists. It might help to clarify this picture, and assist both sides, if we had a more definite idea of what liberal education was all about, and what were the values for which it stands...
WASHINGTON--The U. S. Aircraft Carrier Hornet went down swinging, her planes scoring hits on 12 Jap warships and three auxillaries, sinking four transports and destroying at least 60 Jap planes in five fierce months of fighting before she perished Oct. 26, an official Navy obituary of the gallant craft revealed tonight...
...most gallant guerrilla stories of the war was brought out of Timor last week by Australian Correspondent Bill Marien...