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Then matters suddenly changed. In recent weeks Giraud has ousted some of the more distasteful Vichy administrators. He sent eagle-beaked Yves Chatel, Governor General of Algeria, off to sympathetic Spain. He placed the anti-Vichy René Chambe in charge of propaganda. Charles Brunei, anti-Vichy former mayor of Algiers, was brought into the Council of War Economy. Reactionary General Jean Bergeret, Giraud's deputy civil commander, and Fascist-minded Jean Rigaud, political secretary of the North African war council, resigned. Previously Giraud had said: "I think after I announce my plans they will kick themselves...
...still under the score of the late Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane (32) and Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert Malan (35) and astronomically distant from legendary German Captain Manfred von Richthofen's 80, British Major Edward Mannock's 73, Billy Bishop's 72 and French Major René Fonck...
...cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani and to Covarrubias, the breath-taking photography of Steichen, Beaton, Lohse, Baron Hoyningen-Huene; and the vivid drama of fashion-drawings by Carl Ericsson, Sigrid Grafstrom, Count René Bouët-Willaumez and many others, which in turn influenced all U.S. advertising art. Vogue became a feminine bible of taste. Even its cheesecake was cool and cultured: cheesecake prettily iced. Technician Nast became a millionaire...
...Yale in a two-day meet last week in the Harvard pool. The Elis capsized in their wake 28 other colleges, scoring 71 points to their closest competitor's (Michigan) 39. Yale's swimming stars this season are Captain Howie Johnson, 100-and 220-yard free style; René Chouteau, middle distances; John Meyer, breast stroke; Louis Dannenbaum, backstroke; Jim Cook, diving; and Dick Kelly, sprints. Chouteau was high scorer of the meet with 15 points: first in the 440-yard and the 1,500-meter, and third...
...patient was suspected of heart disease. But, because she was fat, female and modest, the doctor could not put his ear to her chest-and how else could he listen to her heart? Dr. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec rolled a sheet of paper into a tube and held it against her chest. The heart noises came through perfectly to his respectfully distant...