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This is a book for all those who, like Thomas Jefferson, think of France as every man's second country. A Swiss journalist who has lived for ten years in Paris, Herbert Luethy, 37, writes about France with caustically earnest and wide-ranging impartiality, a depth of historical per spective, and a total absence of lecturing, hectoring or sentimentalizing. Luethy calls his book "an attempt to draw up an inventory of what has survived, and also of what has become ossified, in the France of the present day." Though his portentous paradoxes are far from glib, they face...
...Bouncing higher and higher ever since he set a world's high-jump record (6 ft.in 11½) in June 1953, Texas A & M Alumnus Walt Davis, now an employee in the Jefferson County sheriff's department, took time out twice in one week to put on jumping exhibitions in Beaumont and Houston, sailed over a 7-ft. bar each time...
...question: "Who's Mitchell?" Louisiana's Governor Kennon was hardly contrite: "Three hundred thousand Louisiana Democrats backed up my stand on Eisenhower. I think the feeling in Louisiana is that the national Democratic Party will control the national Government when the party returns to the principles of Jefferson. If it adopts another anti-Jeffersonian platform, I wouldn't be surprised to see those 300,000 people in Louisiana again put country above party...
Counsel for Mother Jones. Davis was born in 1873 in Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and he became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...
...81st birthday, Lawyer Davis complained that he was getting old: "Most of the crowd I worked with are gone." Last week in Charleston, S.C., John W. Davis lost a bout with pneumonia, and rejoined the old crowd.* It was just three weeks before his (and Thomas Jefferson's) birthday...