Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Krim, bearded, limping Riff chief who nearly drove the Spaniards out of Morocco in the '20s (before France's Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, put in charge of combined Spanish and French forces, went down and whipped him), finally got the answer he wanted to a letter he has been sending to Paris every year. He could now get off Reunion Island, a muggy spot in the Indian Ocean to which he had been exiled (with two favorite wives and many relatives) back in 1926. Abd el-Krim decided to move to the French Riviera...
Invited to the series of meetings on the "University and Its World Possibilities" to report on the activities of the Council International Committee, Heller joins at the conference such men as poet Archibald MacLeish, Dean Roscoe Pound, and Henri Bonnet, French Ambassador to the United States...
...moment. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put on a show of pictures-each made in a wink-which brought back moments from the past decade more vividly than memory can. They were candid camera shots snapped by France's most distinguished documentary photographer, Henri Carder-Bresson...
Happy Ending. In Bethune, France, Henri Roy, 102, learned that he had at last been made a Knight of the Legion of Honor, murmured, "Now I can die . . . happy," died...
Roberts' fans are most likely to enjoy the Haitian chapters, many of which bubble with the heat and smell of the country, the tragicomic chaos of the days of Toussaint, Henri Christophe and Dessalines. Lydia's standout character: King Dick, giant, uninhibited Sudanese ex-slave who figured in Author Roberts' The Lively Lady and who swaggers happily around Haiti with pearls as big as birds' eggs, a harem of doting wives and a 5-ft. bamboo shillelagh. Lydia Bailey is the stuff that sells, but doesn't survive...