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Fresh proof of their usefulness came from Allied Headquarters last week with the announcement that Staff Sergeant Grady Gaston, of Frisco City,Ala. was recovering after wandering in the wild bush country for 111 days. Gaston was one of the crewmen who bailed out of a U.S. Liberator bomber in a blinding storm on Dec. 1. Three officers with him died in the jungle ; Gaston was saved when a native found him on March...
Died. Henriette Caillaux, ex-Premier Joseph Caillaux's wife, acquitted in 1914 of murdering Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro; in Département Sarthe, France. Campaigning against Caillaux, then Finance Minister, Calmette had printed a love letter Caillaux had written Henriette while he was still married to his first wife, and threatened to print more. Mme. Caillaux went to his office and shot him dead. A French jury decided there had been no premeditation, acquitted her, and precipitated a political crisis. The case for days distracted French attention from the outbreak of World War I. Even 20 years...
Lieutenant Commander Howard M. Menzel played Alphonse to Lieutenant Oswald Jacoby's Gaston last night as the two contrived to smother Bunks Burditt and Hugh Hyde in three rubbers of bridge played at PBH before a crowd of some 50 kibitizers...
...Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones, riled by a charge in Eugene Meyer's Washington Post that he had failed to lay in a sufficient rubber stockpile, punched Mr. Meyer at a Washington party; WPB cut out the use of iron and steel in golf clubs 50%; pink-cheeked Gaston Henry-Haye, Ambassador of Vichyfrance, presented Franklin Roosevelt with a bound volume of the speeches of Marshal Petain to "enlighten" the President on the "general principles that the Marshal is following...
...another action Vichy neglected: it said nothing to its own Ambassador in Washington, blue-eyed, balding little Gaston Henry-Haye. The State Department waited for M. Henry-Haye to come after his passport, finally dispatched George T. Summerlin, Chief of the Division of Protocol, to the handsome, police-guarded French Embassy. For him to give the documents to the anxious, worried envoy took only a moment...