Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middleweight final, between French Sailor Marcel Cerdan and Technical Sergeant Ralph Burnley of Philadelphia, a Negro, stole last week's" show. Both were pros before they went into the service. The Negro, who is crew chief of a P-51 fighter group, ploughed into the Frenchman with abandon, took Round One. Cerdan's right scored three skull-jarring hits in Round Two, floored the Philadelphian three times for a count of nine. Cerdan took the title on a technical K.O. at the bell...
...Frenchmen welcomed him. While pretty girls collected funds, tossed bouquets of red carnations at the guest of honor, the big meeting sang La Marseillaise (six times), the Internationale (four times). The comrades listened to political speeches by Acting Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who sweated profusely, and ex-Party Secretary Marcel Cachin, who declaimed: "Thorez, like Lenin, is always ahead of the people." Then Thorez walked into the spotlight. He began softly, ended thunderously. His speech was organized around four catch phrases which constituted a program for French Communists in the next few months...
...Marcel Petiot, Paris' super-sadistic killer who murdered, diced and cremated some 50 bodies during the Nazi occupation, tried to wriggle out of jail last week with a new twist. Charged with murdering Frenchmen for the Gestapo, Petiot claimed the reverse was true, boasted: "I belonged to the Fly-Tox* resistance group...
...Marcel Andre Henri Felix Petiot is a tall, elegant man whose brown curly beard stretches from ear to ear. Seven months ago a peculiar odor coming from his Paris house attracted unwanted attention. Inside, police found the remains of 50 to 60 persons, bits of their clothing and jewelry. At first they could not find Dr. Petiot, but last fortnight they did. He was waiting for a subway in the Saint-Mande station. Dr. Petiot wore the uniform of an F.F.I captain...
...born Edmund Hartley, of English parents who had settled in Lewiston, Me. He studied at the Cleveland Art School, Manhattan's Chase School and National School of Design, contributed to Manhattan's historic 1913 Armory Show, where modern art first drew a big U.S. public, thanks to Marcel Duchamps' cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase. Hartley was also among the handful of modernists sponsored by famed Manhattan Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...