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Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny was the fighting son of a fighting father. He was 12 when the Nazis conquered France. At 16, he made his way out across the Pyrenees and through Spain to North Africa, where his father, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, was already organizing what later became the French First Army. Young Bernard enlisted in the Free French army in 1944, landed with the Allies in the south of France, went on with the French army into Germany, won a Medaille Militaire and a Croix de Guerre with palm. Last week, in Indo-China, Lieut...
...World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, a ten-round decision (after flooring his opponent five times), over France's Jean Wanes; at Zurich...
...lushly romantic Mayerling, Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux played out the theory of a suicide pact, inspired by Emperor Franz Joseph's order to break off the love affair. The real dope, whispers the new picture confidentially, is that the Prince (Jean Marais) and Marie Vetsera (Dominique Blanchar) were victims of a political intrigue. They planned suicide, all right, even left notes. But after they changed their minds, a German agent slipped into the bedroom and finished the job with his pistol...
...movie's treatment of the political maneuvering is unconvincingly hazy, and its melodrama slow. But plenty is left of the love affair, and Director Jean (God Needs Men) Delannoy makes it no less romantic than it was in Mayerling...
France's fighting General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny insisted that the major concentration of Western strength should be made in Indo-China; the British argued that their Malaya campaign was at least as important. The U.S. spokesman, Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, listened impassively, said little. De Lattre commented angrily (and unjustly) that he had been brought to Singapore on false pretenses-the British and Americans were apparently not really interested in Indo-China. Why had no Vietnamese observer been invited, even though Viet Nam was bravely fighting Communism? Then De Lattre went to his room...