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...almost 93-year-old marshal was once more to enjoy trees and flowers, there was little time to lose. In his fortress prison on the Ile de Yeu, the man who once dragged that he would live to be no was rapidly failing. By special dispensation he was no longer forced to make his bed or sweep his room, and he had given up his two daily 30-minute strolls in the prison yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge...
From Winthrop House: Hale M. Knight '50, of Grosse Ile, Mich...
...There's a difference," he explains, "in the way a $12 coat wrinkles from the way a $75 coat wrinkles. And that has to be right. It's just as important, esthetically, as the difference in the light of the Ile de France and the Brittany coast. Maybe it's more important. If I look at an ordinary overcoat as if I never saw it before, then it becomes as fit a subject for painting as one of Titian's purple cloaks...
...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...
...still bringing G.I.s and war brides home. But every two weeks she was taking 400 to 500 passengers from New York to London for $212.50. In about seven months the Queen Elizabeth would be in regular North Atlantic service. By mid-summer the French Line hopes to have the Ile de France and DeGrasse running. Before long, the War Shipping Administration hopes to allocate more ships to the Mediterranean and South African runs, now serviced only by freighters...