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Died. Edouard Herriot, 84, three times (1924, '26, '32) Premier of France, whose career stretched over half a century, paralleled the Third Republic; in Lyon. Elected mayor of Lyon at 33, a Senator at 40, witty, erudite, pipe-puffing Herriot became a Senate rival to the fiery Georges Clemenceau; with British Socialist and Visionary Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the "Geneva Protocol" into the League of Nations, a first international attempt to outlaw aggression; canceled (1932) the German reparations agreements and plunged France soon after into such deep financial troubles that despite his efforts France repudiated its U.S. debts...
...race which could take its whisky along with the hard Knox of predestination. In the end, the reader will have learned something of the manners of nearly extinct fighting tribesmen-and the almost equally extinct art of tragedy in the novel. As the grand and grotesque Jock orders the pipe laments for his dead adversary, he cries to his brother officers the patriarchal clan key to the whole story: "I'm bashed the now. Oh, my babies, take me home...
...anesthetized patient on the operating table was a man of 50 whose heart had been seriously damaged by rheumatic fever. Electrodes taped to his ankles and wrists led to an electrocardiograph screen. He had a blood pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then...
...could forget our low marks and miserable social life if we could get to Yale and buy a genuine tweed jacket, a pipe, and a superior attitude. Not only that, but the professor who made the suggestion said we could "renew old high school friendships," which would be marvelous especially since we've avoided them for some time now. But we're told that Yale is a friendly school where people talk to each other or if they don't they can exchange knowing looks...
Died. William Johnson, 41, tall, bearded baritone who starred in the Broadway musical Pipe Dream (opposite Helen Traubel), replaced Alfred Drake in Kismet (1954), sang the male lead in the London productions of Annie Get Your Gun and Kiss Me, Kate; of a heart attack; in Flemington...