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...order was a surprise to Monaco's press bureau, headed by Actor Jean Gastaud-Mercury and assisted by Charles A. Smith, on special leave as I.N.S. Euro pean general manager. Though Smith organized photographic pool coverage of the 1956 Olympics and D-day in Normandy, and sat on the committee that made press arrangements for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, the new project promised to be his toughest. Smith urgently wired the Prince to try to persuade him to let at least a few newsmen in for the ceremonies on a pool basis...
...token 19-man truck team will represent the Crimson at the 79th annual IC4-A championships today and tomorrow in New York. Pean State and Manhattan are co-favorites to win the meet title. Coach Bill McCurdy has little hope that his team, in its last meet, will get more than a few points, competing against the best truck teams in the East. Forty-seven colleges are entered in the meet...
...peppery disciplinarian with a splendid combat record (five times cited in dis patches, twice wounded, three times deco rated in the field), he is the only French man to hold one of the four top Euro pean commands in NATO. Tough and wiry, a born soldier and a patriot, he has a flair for fast horses, smart uniforms, brandy, and resounding candor. It was his candor and his refusal to curb it that proved Marshal Juin's undoing...
...strictly a virtuoso; a technician who is able to race brilliantly through Liszt Rhapsodies and Chopin Etudes." As recently as 1951, Manhattan critics felt that he had plenty of speed but not enough depth, and Julius returned to his Left Bank apartment in Paris and more Euro pean appearances...
World War II: Known as a good infantryman who knew how to train others, went to England in 1942 to command all U.S. ground forces in the Euro pean Theater of Operations. In October 1942, in a daring sortie, went by submarine to the North African coast, paddled a canoe ashore, where with Bob Murphy his helped to plan Allied invasion landings with French officers; lost his pants on the way back when the canoe capsized, but won promotion to lieutenant general, thus at 46 became the youngest three-star general in U.S. history up to that time. (His record...