Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pennsylvania's center, Herb Lyon, and Captain Stan Novak sparked the Red and Blue's quintet to a 30 to 24 halftime edge, after Harvard had gone ahead at one time by three points in the first period...
Probable varsity lineups: HARVARD PENN Hauptfuhrer lf Carlson Rockwell rf Heindel Prior c Lyon Brady lg Novak Gannon rg Harman
...sign above an editor's desk: "1) Where is the fact? 2) Where is the human interest? 3) Where is the tra-la-la?" The thing that most impressed him was the tralala. When France fell, Corre managed to miss the occupation's hardships by going to Lyon. But he turned up as an eleventh-hour Resistance soldier under General Leclerc and rode into Paris as a private in one of the first jeeps behind Leclerc...
Only 48 hours earlier, William Lyon Mackenzie King had stood before the National Liberal Federation in Ottawa and announced his long-awaited retirement (TIME, March 31). Party leader since 1919, and Prime Minister for two decades, Mackenzie King told his audience that he felt the weight of his 73 years. He asked the federation to call a national Liberal convention (probably in August) to choose his successor...
...Parliament is dissolved, which might happen at any time with Charles de Gaulle waiting in the wings, the constitution provides that the Assembly president shall take over as "acting Premier" until a new government is formed. That would be Radical Socialist Edouard Herriot of Lyon, reliable as an oak, who was re-elected to the presidency last week. But M. Herriot is old and ailing. If he were too ill to serve, the first vice president would take over. Therefore, reasoned the Assembly majority, Jacques Duclos must not again be first vice president...