Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York hotel room last week, merry-eyed M. (for Marcel) W. (for William) Fodor, 53, one of the oldest and ablest of U.S. foreign correspondents, smiled happily and rubbed his hands. After a six-year absence he was going back to his Balkan beat, on which, he is perhaps the world's top expert, and he expected great things...
Twenty-five years ago, in the wake of World War I, Hungarian-born Marcel Fodor set out for the Balkans with equal zest. An engineer, fluent in five languages, he had been grumbling along as manager of a steel mill in the English Midlands. Postwar retrenchment shut the mill, freed Fodor. The Manchester Guardian liked his occasional letters from Middle Europe, asked for cables, soon hired the shy, whip-smart, "relentlessly honest" little man as a fulltime correspondent. Thereby, the Guardian conferred a major boon on U.S. foreign correspondence...
Said Pfc. Marcel Beaulieu, 21, of Chicapee Falls, Mass.: "I think I'm going to stay in New York and see a couple of ball games. I've been thinking about that for a long time. I used to keep thinking about that last game...
...words: "France must be dignified and disciplined in attitude. . . . We are not in the war." It was not enough. More violent Nazi- philes, their bridges already burned behind them, moved to range Vichyfrance openly on the Nazi side. Brutal Policeman Joseph Darnand, Minister of Labor Marcel Deat, slick Minister of Propaganda Philippe Henriot denounced Petain and Laval for straddling. Bull-like Jacques Doriot, powerful boss of the pro-Nazi Popular Party, bellowed that France must "make active contribution to this gigantic struggle." The Berlin radio hinted that Doriot might become No. 1. puppet: "A people...
...Walter Gropius, France's Le Corbusier, the U.S.'s Raymond Hood. In 1935, it successfully arranged the American canonization of Vincent van Gogh. In 1936, its Cubism and Abstract Art show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century since that September Morn of cubism: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. In later shows the Museum assembled Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, the works of Picasso. Over the years it has coyly flirted with lusty, callow, sometimes triumphant...