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...Continent. Last week both Britain and France might have devoutly thanked God for such a passageway had it been bombproof. After the abrupt surrender of Belgian King Leopold (see p. 32), some 600,000 survivors of the northern Allied Armies were locked in a triangular trap between the Lys River, the Artois Hills and the North Sea (see map). As 800,000 Germans on the ground and thousand more in the sky relentlessly pressed the trap's jaws together. Allied Generalissimo Maxime Weygand with his Armies south of the Somme could do nothing but let General Georges Maurice Jean...
When the Belgian surrender fatally exposed their left flank, the British, who were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
Married. Sacha Guitry, 54, flamboyant French actor-playwright-producer; and Genevieve de Seréville, 18, beauteous, stagestruck debutante; he for the fourth time (other brides: Charlotte Lysés, Yvonne Printemps, Jacqueline Delubac); in Versailles. Hour before the wedding Actor Guitry personally invited President & Mme Lebrun. They hedged, finally sent a minor official in their stead...
Divorced. Sacha Guitry, 54, French actor-author-director; by Jacqueline Delubac (Isabelle-Jacqueline Basset), his third wife and leading lady; in Paris. Grounds: desertion. Sacha Guitry's other two marriages were also to his leading ladies (Charlotte Lysès, Yvonne Printemps); both also ended in divorce...
...turtle, Fleur de Lys, came through safely was Mrs. Piccard's first concern. Dr. Jean Piccard, brother of famed ecstatic Stratospherist Auguste Piccard, was tired and the rough landing hurt his foot. He curled up in a blanket and rested. Mrs. Piccard powdered her nose. The sealed barograph went to Washington. The cosmic ray recorders went to Dr. W. F. G. Swarm of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation. A sack of mail went to stamp collectors...