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...After Waterloo Marshal Ney was condemned to a traitor's death. Following the execution his corpse lay on the ground for a quarter-hour, was then delivered to his family who placed it in a lead casket, buried it without ceremony in an unmarked grave in Paris' Pere-Lachaise Cemetery...
Over Michel Ney's once unmarked grave in Pere-Lachaise Cemetery now rises a three-tiered monument, blazoned with plaques of rose-colored marble bearing the names of the hero's descendants also buried there and the dates of his victories. Last week news of the North Carolina venture made Pere-Lachaise keepers scoff anew at a chestnut which had been popping fitfully for years. At No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, the Duchess of Elchingen, relict of a Michel Ney who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's great ancestor was buried...
...March, "Le Pere de la Victoire"Ganne *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *"Spring" (For String Orchestra) Grieg *"Fosterians," Rhapsody on Melodies of Stephen Foster Baron *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Song of India Rimsky-Korsakov *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Hans Wiener and Dance Group with Orchestra *"La Valse" Ravel *Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...difficult role of Mio Burgess Meredith plays with great skill and strength; Margo portrays Miriamne with gentle and compelling simplicity. Myron McCormick makes Trock a vivid incarnation of humanity reduced to the ruthless. Lee Baker as the broken judge and Austole Winogradoff as the some what Old Testament Esdras Pere contribute excellent characterizations...
...will go about 50% of the common stock of Allegheny Corp., representing all but one of the Van Sweringen railroads, Wheeling & Lake Erie, whose stock is pledged with RFC. The man who owns that block of Alleghany stock can hire & fire the executives of Chesapeake & Ohio (3,100 mi.), Pere Marquette (2,200 mi.), Erie (2,700 mi.). Nickel Plate (1,690 mi.) and have a voice in the reorganization of Missouri Pacific (12,000 mi.) and Chicago & Eastern Illinois (900 mi.). Also for sale is stock control of Van Sweringen Corp., representing the Van Sweringens' principal real estate holdings...