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Flight to Arras is the most important book yet written about this war. Like all Saint-Exupéry's books, it is a description of a flight-a pilot's reflections borne upon the arc of a few hours' intense action. But this particular flight, in which Saint-Exupéry faced death, he transmutes into a magic text, at times almost Biblical, of why men fight, and how they feel in the presence of death...
...Rumson, N.J. Reason: her father had threatened to knock Billy silly if they did it. ∽∽ Marion Talley finally won a divorce from her music-teacher husband, whose countersuit had credited eight assorted lovers to the onetime star of the Metropolitan (who later reduced on and for Ry-Krisp). A Los Angeles judge listened to the evidence seven weeks, found all the charges against the singer false, gave her custody of Daughter Susan April. ∽∽ Chunky, bushy-browed Thomas E. Mitchell, 46, (GWTW's Gerald O'Hara) remarried his former wife, 25 years after they were...
...folds of the mantle of P. T. Barnum now flow over the tough shoulders of Showman Mike Todd who ran four of the biggest, most popular attractions at the recent New York World's Fair (Gay New Orleans, Streets of Paris, Dancing Campus, Old Time Op'ry House). Previous wearer of the whole mantle was Showman Billy Rose, but if Showman
...Governor Louis Bouvin of the five minuscule colonies of French India (Pondichéry, Karikal, Chandernagor, Mahé, Yanaon; total pop. 300,353) declared their loyalty to De Gaulle...
Invasion: Preview and Prevention The last time that an enemy (William the Conqueror) successfully invaded Great Britain, he assembled 700 transports (open barges) at St. Valéry-sur-Somme, waited for a fair wind, embarked an Army of 5,000 men, including 2,000 mobile armored units (mounted knights and their squires), sailed overnight across the English Channel (70 miles) and landed at Pevensey next morning. Immediately he marched to the nearest big city (Hastings), which he started fortifying (building a castle). The British (under King Harold of Wessex), though forewarned, had been drawn away by another invader...