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Died. General Henri Gouraud, 78, oft-wounded, one-armed idol of the Army of France, hero of the bloody Gallipoli campaign, World War I commander of the Fourth Army (which included the 36th and 42nd U.S. divisions), Military Governor of Paris until 1937; in Paris...
...will undertake to write his or her biography. Certainly Margaret Cole, who worked with Beatrice Webb in the Fabian Society, is too closely connected with the British Socialist movement to maintain even an aura of scholarly objectivity. The author seems more concerned with justifying each particular action of her idol than with evaluating her various campaigns in the light of her announced objectives. This, plus a rather careless style, makes "Beatrice Webb" more of an expanded pamphlet than a work of research, but Mrs. Cole's observations are nevertheless valuable to the student of British socialism...
...loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...
...Once the idol of labor, he found himself under heavy fire this summer from the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. His independence and disdain of party lines caused at least one section of his party, the Yellowstone County Democratic Central Committee, to repudiate onetime New Dealer Wheeler as a "party renegade" (though his good friend Harry Truman had tried to give him a hand). The veterans of the war he had tried to ignore campaigned ardently against...
Anne Sullivan, obviously, possessed the good teacher's infinite patience, tolerance of repeated failure, and contagious enthusiasm. Woodrow Wilson, described as Princeton's "matinee-idol" professor of politics, had only the enthusiasm. Though he is included as a "great teacher," the former student who describes him writes that pupils were inspired by Wilson's intellect but repelled by his intellectuality. Because he knew all the answers, he froze most of his listeners...