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...waitresses at L'Humanité's peace cocktail party wore neat, black dresses and crisp white aprons. They served only one drink -a pale yellow liquid which tasted vaguely like a martini. About a hundred foreign newspapermen, including only a handful of Americans, showed up at the party on the seventh floor of the building. The official host was stooping, white-haired Marcel Cachin, director of L'Humanité, whose attacks on the U.S. have been among the most violent and slanderous. He greeted U.S. journalists with great cordiality: "How nice of you to come...
...most horrible thing was a little girl, about 13. She stood on the sidewalk with some other kids, just a few yards from the savage fighting. Her nose was running, her flaxen hair was wet and bedraggled, and she had a sore under one of her eyes, which were pale blue and showed no emotion or even comprehension of the scene. With the other children, she was chanting, "Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin...
...same with Washington, or Daniel Boone, or John James Audubon, or Henry Clay. But in Sunday school, he was told of "a Figure for whom was made an infinitely more enormous claim than for any of the others." The picture showed him as "a pale and posturing person with immoderately long, silky hair . . . who clutched a kind of diaphanous drapery gracefully about him" with an expression of "simpering vapidity...
...this was a pale fight compared to the 1937 game in the Stadium, Harvard, with Vernon Struck, Frank Foley, and Macdonald operating in the backfield, had exploded just once--against Princeton--and seemed doomed to lose to a Yale team which had big fast linemen and a backfield led by All-American Clint Frank...
...School students, incensed over a recent statement in Yale-controlled Life Magazine, have challenged the Eli football coach to a gastronomical contest. The remark, contained in the Luce publication's pale blue appraisal of the nation's new coaches, said, "Herman Hickman can eat more than any two men alive...