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...wealthy silk manufacturer in Lyon, young Henri could have chosen a life of comfort. Instead, he gave his patrimony to charity and took the vows of the Capuchin order. In 1938, when his health broke after eight years in the monastery at Crest, he moved to a parish in Grenoble. Eventually, he became a leader of the anti-Nazi Resistance in eastern France, using many aliases including the one that stuck: Abbé Pierre. Among other exploits, he carried Charles de Gaulle's ailing brother Jacques across the frontier to safety in Switzerland. Later he himself was smuggled into...
...Communists, as many leftists were prone to suspect, the effect, for the moment at least, was exactly the reverse. A gigantic labor rally in Rome, called to express outrage at the kidnaping, produced the unusual sight of white banners, with the crossed shield of the Christian Democrats, flying silk-to-silk with the red flags and the hammer and sickle of the Italian Communists...
...Terriers responded to tie it at one-apiece at 11:29 of the first, when Dave Silk ended a scramble in the crease by pushing it past Wisconsin's All-American goalie Julian Baretta on an assist from B.U. junior co-captain Jack O'Callahan...
...locals jumped to a 2-1 lead at 7:31 of the second when winger John Bethel took a pass from Silk and O'Callahan and skated down the center to slip it behind Baretta. Tony Meagher added another at 8:47 of the second on a pass from center Marc Hetnik, to give B.U. a 3-1 edge...
...then fired up to put the game out of reach for the Western College Hockey Association champs. Leading scorer Fidler drilled a low slapper past Baretta on a power play at 6:15 of the third period, and Silk chipped one past the netminder from right on the goal line a mere 35 seconds later...