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...Major Georges Thenault, air attaché of the French Embassy, presented to his Excellency, President Coolidge, M. le Capitaine René Fonck, officially credited with hav-ing shot down 85 German airplanes during...
Experts accompanying the delegation were: J. B. Vincent, administrator of the Treasury; J. Warland, director of the public debt; René van Crombrugge, diplomat; André Terlinden, dlrecteur de la Sociôté National de Credit a I'lndustrie; Robert Silvercruys, secretary-general to the delegation...
...could; the other played a backcourt game, driving deeply and accurately. His brow was furrowed with concentration; he was trying very hard to win. His rival at the net was more debonair; when a neat lob passed him, he kissed his fingers to it; occasionally he called out, "Bravo, René." He, Jean Borotra, was playing against René Lacoste, conquerer of J. O. Anderson, for the championship of England at Wimbledon (TIME, July 6). On the sidelines sat the King of England, who was rumored to have a bet on Boro-tra. He did not know, perhaps, that Borotra...
Later, Pope Pius, a Canadian pilgrimate and 60,000 of the faithful knelt in veneration and beatified the tortured priests whose sufferings were blazoned on the banners. The beatified: John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant, Anthony Daniel, Charles Gamier, Noel Charbanel, Jean de la Lande, René Goupil and Isaac Jogues...
Last week on a covered court in Paris, two other young men strove. They too were not Tilden and Johnston. They were René LaCoste and Jean Borotra. René had no trouble in covering himself with la glorie. He beat Jean, the French Davis Cup captain, 114 points to 88 (8-6, 6-0, 6-3) and captured the Christmas Cup. Then, said René: "With another visit to the United States, I may do better...