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...with the Muffler. When France collapsed in June 1940, Hardy became a supervisor in Paris' Gare Montparnasse. He regularly reported troop train movements to London, was jailed for 15 months by the Germans. Released, he made his way into Vichyfrance where he directed the underground's railroad sabotage. Then his path converged (briefly and tragically) with that of one of the Resistance's greatest heroes, a man called...
...unexciting prewar job of prefect of Chartres, had simply decided to stand up to the boches. Once, after being tortured by the Germans, his courage failed him and he tried to slit his throat (afterward, he always wore a scarf and became known as The Man with the Muffler). Eventually, De Gaulle charged him with coordinating all of France's hopelessly scattered resistance knots. The result was the National Council of Resistance which unified all underground activities. It was at one of the council's meetings (at Caluire-et-Cuire, near Lyons, on June 21, 1943) that...
Like most of the group, Gustave Singier is a married man, spends his days painting in an ice-cold studio wearing two sweaters, two coats, a muffler and hat. He seldom sees his fellow painters. Asked what the twelve call themselves, he explained that movements don't give themselves names: like Quakers, they get names pinned on them by their detractors. He-if no one else-liked, a name he had found in reading Delacroix's Journal: "Surnaturalists...
...Mississippi's Democratic Senator Bilbo: "The next step should be to put a muffler on Claude Pepper...
Charming Cinemactress Kerr (Major Barbara, Colonel Blimp) plays the early, mousey Cathie as though she herself sniffled through breakfast every morning in bathrobe and muffler. She also looks miraculously fetching in the blue serge suit and black cotton stockings of "a Wren. Versatile Cinemactor Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) seems happy in what is probably the freest, freshest comedy role he has ever had, and grows young even more gracefully than he grew old in the James Hilton heartwringer...