Word: renee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred Dreyfus was the best-known prisoner ever to be confined on Devil's Island, the best-known fugitive is a gaunt, grizzled onetime French newshawk named Rene Belbenoit, who in 1921 broke into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
...Panama trapping rare butterflies with a long-handled net to make enough money to carry him to the U. S. Recently he appeared at the offices of the Panama American, told his story which was promptly resold to the North American Newspaper Alliance. As originally written, it began: "I, Rene Belbenoit, who have smelled the odor of human liver being cooked by escaped convicts, who have seen groups of men decapitated every month...
...Indoor Athletic Building when the Crimson swordsmen came from behind to nose out the Eli fencers 14-13 for their first victory over the Blue in four years. Coach Grasson felt that the judging was prejudiced against his team and took no pains to conceal his emotions. Rene Peroy, Crimson mentor, refused to get excited about the meet and simply said "Grasson is always a very poor loser...
...Captain Len Leboeuf and with Nat Batchelder, Jim Cahn, and Joe Doyle in starring roles, Coach Rene Percy's team won the epee easily 6-3, but dropped the foils decision by the same score. The match was decided when Batchelder won two bouts in the sabre to give the Crimson a 5-4 edge...
...Coach Rene Peroy's Varsity and Freshman fencing teams impaled the Brown swordsmen in Providence Saturday afternoon by the scores of 21-6 and 11-6, in their respective matches...