Word: michell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Courtois raises children, traps beaver. In August 1928, he loaded two canoes with flour, bacon and steel traps and traveled 450 miles up the Peribonka River from his frontier home in the village of Roberval with two of his sons, 19-year-old Réné and 13-year-old Michel, for a winter in the woods...
From Roberval parties of Indians and French Canadians set out to search northern Quebec ? a half-explored tract of forest land larger than all New England ? for Réné and Michel Courtois. Three weeks ago they found them 95 miles north of Roberval. Thirteen-year-old Michel, his hair matted, his face aged and seamed from privation, crouched over an iron bucket in which he had kept a fire burning for two months. Nineteen-year-old Réné, dead since July, lay beside him, a moldering skeleton...
Kindly Indian rescuers offered plates of steaming beans, mugs of hot coffee. Michel Courtois blanched...
Last week, sufficiently recovered to pose for his picture, Michel Courtois was brought back to Roberval. A coroner's jury glanced perfunctorily at the skeleton of Réné Courtois, gave a verdict...
...office or factory floor. There were some others who liked to employ college men but only after someone else had "broken them in." A number conceded that a collegiate business school might impart some useful knowledge but it could not train executives. Business executives we were told, like Michel Angelos and Shakespeares, are born, not made. I remember well a question put to me, in the first year of the school, by one of these skeptical visitors. He was as it happened, a firm believer in West Point methods. "What, apart from mere technical knowledge, readily acquired and honesty, much...