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Born. To Michele Morgan, 24, green-eyed French cinemactress ; and cinemactor Gerard William Marshall, 27, medically discharged from the Army six months ago : their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Michael William. Weight...
...Eisenhower could look ahead confidently to new phases. He named Major General Ivan Gerard to direct Belgian patriots. He rallied the Netherlanders' resistance under Prince Bernhard's leadership, urged them to block damage to Rotterdam and other ports. To Germany he said again: its war will be over in 1944. Unless the Wehrmacht could show more than it had in France, no snow would fall on the Battle of Germany...
...winter of 1875 the sailing ship Deutschland foundered in a storm in the Thames estuary. All her crew and five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, went down with her. Far away in the Welsh mountains, 31-year-old Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit novice, was shocked by the catastrophe into writing his first poem in seven years. He sent The Wreck of the Deutschland to his young friend, Poet Robert Bridges, who carefully pasted the epic into an album. There it remained for 40 years, until publication of Hopkins' collected works brought the long-dead Jesuit acclaim...
...Tuncks Is a Good Name." Manley Hopkins, Gerard's father, not only wrote books giving Advice and Instructions to the Master Mariner in Situations of Doubt, Difficulty, and Danger; he was also consul general in London for the then-independent Hawaiian Islands. Sons Arthur and Everard contributed drawings to Punch; Lionel, British Consul in Chefoo, collected "ancient incised bones...
...surprised when pious Gerard, the eldest brother, became so filled with "gnawing self-doubt" and the need to test his strength that he abstained from liquids until his tongue turned black. Sometimes he lay in bed, "filled with mortification . . . contemplating the ugli ness of the name Hopkins"-a loathing from which he never recovered. "Tuncks is a good name," the youth wrote in his diary; "Gerard Manley Tuncks...