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...Just before the battle at Soissons and Château Thierry in July, 1918, one of my Captains insisted upon keeping a parrot in the vicinity of headquarters. On the day before the engagement it kept screaming, 'Demain, mort aux Boches! (To morrow, death to the Germans!) I asked my aide to muzzle his eloquent but indiscreet pet. But just as my order was given that bird exulted, 'Allaos! (There we go.) Perhaps he had a soul, but I am inclined to think he was just a mean, clever bird...
Soon reports of the accident spread about. Parisians expressed their relief, rejoiced especially for the sake of Mme. Foch (the former Julie Bienvenue) and the two Foch daughters, Mme. Becourt and Mme. Fournier. To his only son, they recalled, is vouchsafed the distinction "Mort pour la France...
...THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER !?Meredith Nicholson? Scribners ($2.00). Mort Crane was a printer in Indianapolis, and his wife Alice owned a fourth interest in the printing business in which he was Vice President and Secretary. He loved his work and his wife loved the profits?or she would have loved them if they had been larger. So Alice after 17 years began to think Mort was a futile little man, that Howard Spencer, who owned three fourths of the "Press," was a very fine man, and that the "Press" should be expanded. Mort Crane could not think...
...admitted it. He bragged about it. To be sure, when it came to a showdown, his nerves didn't fail him in holding up a large touring car and robbing its occupants of all the gasoline they possessed, nor did it interfere seriously with his fighting ability when Mort forgot that Sally Morgan was supposed to be married. But all sorts of things happen in Montana, you know, and even very intelligent young men from Pittsburgh may learn a thing or two there...
...Medaille Militaire a etc attribute a la memoire du Sergeant Hoskier, Ronald Wood, du 2 groupe d'Aviation Mort pour la France...