Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uruguay and New Zealand (Roberto MacEachen and Sir Carl Berendsen) tried to escape from the room, were testily waved back to their seats by the Chair (Paul-Henri Spaak). The Ukraine (Dmitri Manuilsky) prodded sarcastically: "Who is to decide which are the 'great classics of human thought?' Human thought has taken some very capricious turns at times! Very capricious. ..." (Lebanon's own uncapricious selections: Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, Leibnitz, Pascal, Descartes, Kant, Averroes.*) The matter was referred to the Assembly, to be referred back to a committee...
...squatters moved in on Montreal last week. And the Communists moved in on the squatters. Leader of the Montreal squatters, who took over two empty gambling joints, was Henri Gagnon, 36, Quebec's No. 1 Communist and an organizer of the Communist Labor Progressive Party. The Montreal squatting movement, like others in Canada, was born out of the attempts of non-Communist veterans to find living quarters. At the first Montreal meeting, Gagnon appeared, had himself elected president of the newly formed Homeless Veterans' League, and led the squats...
...active and enterprising local representation. The Institute of Modern Art, a non-profit organization, with galleries on Newbury Street, maintains no permanent collection but has frequent showings of distinguished contemporary painting. It is, at present, holding its Tenth Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, including major works by Picasso, Matisse, Roualt, Henri Rousseau, Klee, Marin, and Siqueiros. Boris Mirski's Gallery, also on Newbury Street, shows mainly Mexican and Boston moderns. The current show comprises paintings by pupils and admirers of Karl Zerbe, the celebrated and versatile Boston romantic. Mirski's also sells original paintings and prints by local artists, and maintains...
...Marshal of France," snapped Henri Philippe Pétain at his judges more than a year ago, "begs nobody's mercy!" A solitary prisoner now in France's Ile d'Yeu Fortress, ten miles offshore in the Bay of Biscay, the 90-year-old ex-hero of Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole...
...Jean-Henri Fabre's observations on the life and loves of the Languedoc scorpion...