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Students convalescing at the new Stillman Infirmary in Holyoke Center are being fed by Field Marshal Rommel's former cook...
...proportion to his real role in the battle. It was actually his chief of staff, Ludendorff, who personally directed and deployed the troops. Hindenburg fully approved of Ludendorff's strategies. The two worked closely together throughout World War I. When Hindenburg was made a field marshal he was nicknamed "Marshal Was-sagst-du" because whenever he was asked an opinion, he would turn to Ludendorff and query, "Was sagst du?" (What...
...been easy for the West Germans to turn their backs on the Soviet proposal, for Smirnov has offered not the slightest hint of what political price Moscow might be prepared to offer in any negotiations. But in their pitch, the Russians have firm backing from all their allies-even Marshal Tito has stopped Yugoslavia's hate-Germany campaign to sweeten the atmosphere-and the Smirnov line still has some appeal in West Germany. Particularly interested: Erich Mende, leader of Adenauer's little Free Democratic coalition partners, who has long sought closer contact with Moscow to spur chances...
Adding yet another cause to a roster that already includes spiritualism and antivivisectionism, Britain's Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, 79, plumped for a legal ban on animal poisons that inflict suffering, confided to the House of Lords that he and his wife kept their home free of rodents entirely through friendly persuasion. The technique, Lady Dowding later explained to newsmen, involves stealing up on the beasts after dark and cooing: "I am glad to have you as unseen pets, but you are causing me some difficulty." Then, "after I have said this, they understand the situation and leave...
Died. Berthe-Eugénie-Alphonsine Hardon Pétain, 84, stoic widow of France's Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain; after a long illness; in Paris. Married to Pétain at the height of his World War I glory as the defender of Verdun, Mme. Pétain dutifully shared his World War II ignominy as chief of the puppet Vichy regime, after his postwar sentence for treason followed him to the tiny Ile d'Yeu, where she was his only visitor during six years of solitary confinement, and upon his death in 1951 persuaded...