Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the occupation, M. Sacha Guitry, garrulous, versatile luminary of the French stage, accepted so many Nazi cheers that his countrymen threw him in jail after the liberation. The French courts cleared him of the charge of collaboration. But as Guitry found out in Lyon last week, some people of the Resistance...
Guitry's business in Lyon was the gala premiéere of his newest film, The Comedian. It turned out to be one of his usual hits. When the show was over, he and his leading lady, Lina Marconi, were driven away for a gay supper. At the lowered barrier of a railway crossing, however, men sprang from the darkness. Said their leader: "We are terribly sorry, Monsieur Sacha Guitry, but we are men of the Resistance and we think it advisable that you come with...
Thundered the Archbishop of Lyon: "This abominable dance kills virtue, and gives rein to every appetite." At an Atlanta, Ga. Bible conference, Dr. Campbell Morgan declared that the tango was a reversion to the ape. A New York doctor announced a new disease, the tango foot. In Paris, the Argentine ambassador added his censure. "The tango," said he, "is a dance peculiar to the houses of ill fame in Buenos Aires and is never cultivated at respectable gatherings...
Badminton--Suzanne Watson '49, Mary Lyon '50, Nancy Nauts...
Except for their political tenacity, there were few obvious resemblances between Canada's King and Britain's Walpole. King, grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie, who in 1837 led a futile rebellion against the tight clique ruling Upper Canada, began his career as a social worker. Walpole, to the manor born, worked for the good of the landed gentry. A high liver, a great man for the ladies, he was also a follower of the hounds. Bachelor Mackenzie King lives austerely. Though he has been known to ride, he would be miserable in a pink coat...