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...After clinging close to the lead through most of the 24-day, 2,800-mile Tour de France, the grueling bike race that winds around France and into Italy and Bel gium, Roger Walkowiak, 29, a Frenchman of Polish descent, almost came to grief on the final lap. He had a blowout 20 kilometers from the finish. But Roger reso-utely grabbed a teammate's bike, pumped madly for home, hung on to his time advantage and prizes and contracts worth more than...
Last week Berlin announced that on Sept. 11 Leopold had married Marie-Lelia Baels, renouncing for any children of the marriage the right to the Belgian throne. The renunciation was largely academic. Eleven years had almost leveled the stations of the dark-eyed commoner and Bel gium's morose prisoner...
Experts believed that the "Secret Weap on" brandished by Adolf Hitler at the war's beginning was anything from a Buck Rogers death ray to hot air. But the sudden, startling capture early last week of Eben Emael fortress, potent key of Bel gium's Liege defense system and synonym to Belgians for Security, made the world wonder. Germany officially announced that this exploit was accomplished by use of a new Angriffsmittel (attack method) operated by one Lieut. Witzig, an air pilot who landed his plane inside the fortress and in a few minutes, "despite heavy de fense...
Hauling out the other Grecian mask, the University gives "Godfrey" a very gium companion by the name of "A Son Comes Home." It is mildly interesting to see Wallace Ford, a reporter, catch the villain of the piece, after having summed up the case as a matter of writing to every port in the country and saying. "If you see a man, stop him." It is also interesting to see that Mary Boland is a highly talented tragedienne, and she it is who puts the pathos in a mother's sacrificing her wicked son. But somehow one can't help...
...Legion d' Honneur, 1906, Commandeur, 1912, Grand Officier, 1921; Order of Red Eagle (with star) of Prussia, 1910; Grand Commander of the Royal Order of the Redeemer, ist Class (Greece), 1918; Grand Cross Order of St. Sava, ist Class (Jugoslavia), 1919: Grand Cordon Order of Leopold (Bel-gium), 1921; Grand Officer Order of Polonia Restituta. 1923; Commander of Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy), 1924; Grand Cross Order of the Crown of Roumania, 1927: Order of the White Lion, ist Class (Czechoslovakia), 1027. loudly Dr. Butler trumpets for Peace, the Republican Party and Repeal of the 18th Amendment. Famed...