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Rousset lost 90 pounds in the concentration camps, but he is back to normal now and his English wife calls him "mon gros...
Jean Lurçat returned from World War I with a mangled hand. At first he could not hold a brush, so his mother got him interested in gros point embroidery. In that way he acquired an interest in cloth art which lasted even after his hand improved and he was able to go back to painting...
...miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. other provost officers, aided by Mounties, were staging another manhunt. In two cars and a truck they drove to the road's end at the foot of lonely Gros Cap hill. Then they trudged on snowshoes up the steep hill to a well-hidden, log-and-tar-paper shanty at the top. Outside, the officers pounced on five unshaven, bedraggled youths. Inside they found seven more, plus large stores of butter, canned goods, milk, cigarets, coffee, bread...
Pioneers on Puget Sound ate so many clams "their stomachs rose and fell with the tides." They were great individualists. There was Hazard Stevens, son of the first Governor. At twelve he left home to make a treaty with the Gros Ventre Indians. He was the first white man to climb Mount Rainier...
...Antigua the Navy will have the use of about three square miles on Parham Sound and also of a site on Crabs Peninsula across the harbor. St. Lucia, 2,600 miles west of Dakar and 1,150 miles from the Canal, will house a 120-acre seaplane base at Gros Islet Bay, and possibly other facilities not yet decided...