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...years between the two armistices France made a national shrine of that spot in the Forest of Compiègne. Trees were felled, the clearing carpeted with soft grass. A monument was erected-a sword thrust into a limp German eagle-and on the base of the monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished...
Fortnight ago, Harmon played his last game for Michigan.* Hardly had he cast off his famed 98 jersey (which will be retired to a shrine in Michigan's Field House), than professional football clubs began making do-or-die tackles for him. Red Grange, who had made 31 touchdowns in his varsity career, had been lured into the Chicago Bears' line-up-at a reputed $10,000 a game-the week after he played his last game for Illinois. Nowadays, college footballers cannot play professional ball until their class has graduated. But any player who in eight games...
...Portugal lose his throne. When Gaby died, Harry Pilcer became executor for her $2,000,000 estate. Back to his native U. S. last week, banished by the Nazis from the 21-room Paris apartment of his late, fabled dancing partner (which he had kept as a shrine after her death in 1920), came aging Harry Pilcer...
...they flew so high, dropped light bombs so vaguely, that long-suffering London felt relatively relaxed despite raid alarms as numerous as ever. A German report that the shiny black glass show-building of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express was shattered, proved false. But the historic Middle Temple, shrine of the British bar, with its great oak table said to have been given by the first Queen Elizabeth, was smashed up badly. Most other new damage was sprinkled thinly among residential districts. Londoners felt cheerful enough to grouse about the Government's slowness in bringing up unemployed Welsh...
...tone of most of the proceedings, Librettists Herbert Fields & B. G. ("Buddy") De Sylva have introduced a bit of innocent juvenile appeal represented by Joan Carroll, aged 8, whose part was originally intended for Shirley Temple and who should please even those who insist on worshiping at that small shrine...